 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 406 pages
...passages in these lines: — ,••• There are whom Heaven has bleas'd with store of wit, ^ v Jfet want as much again to manage it : For wit and judgment ever are at strife — It is apparent that wit has two meanings, and that what is wanted, though called wit, is truly... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...profuse, Want as much more to turn it to its use : For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed: The winged courser, like a generous... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...some passages in these lines: There are whom Heaven has bless'd with store of wit, Yet want as nmch again to manage it; For wit and judgment ever are at strife— It is apparent that wit has two meanings, and that what is wanted, though called wit, is truly judgment.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...observation, in the observation itself. The two lines stood originally thus, "There are whom Heav'n has blest with store of Wit, Yet want as much again to manage it." In the first line, wit is used, in the modern sense, for the effort of Fancy ; in the second line it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...meant two very different things, by the same term, in the two preceding, " For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife." W. Ver. 82. wit] " If all wisdom be science, and it be the business of science, as well to compound... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...He has, however, justly criticised some passages : in these lines, There are whom Heaven has bless'd with store of Wit, Yet want as much again to manage it; For Wit and Judgment ever are at strife— it is apparent that wit has two meanings, and that what is wanted, though called wit, is truly judgment.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 pages
...justly criticised some passages in these lines: There are whom Heaven has bless'd with store of Wif, Yet want as much again to manage it ; For Wit and Judgment ever axe at strife — It is apparent that wit has two meanings, and that what is wanted, though called... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...in Wit has been profuse, Want as much more, to turn it to its use." For For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. "Tis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...in the observation itself. The two lines stood originally thus : " There are whom Heav'n has blest with store of Wit, Yet want as much again to manage it." In the first line, wit is used, in the modern sense, for the effort of Fancy ; in the second line it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...in the observation itself. The two lines stood originally thus : " There are whom Heav'n has blest with store of Wit, Yet want as much again to manage it." In the first line, wit is used, in the modern sense, for the effort of Fancy ; in the second line it... | |
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Want as much more, to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed: The winged courser, like a gen'rous... 
