 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 'Tts Sueh and so various are the tastes of men. O blest of Heaven ! whom not the languid rangs Of dangerous is th' ofienee To tire our patienee, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | 1825 - 546 ページ
...been raising up " bubbles light as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "Hs hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is th* offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 ページ
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust ! Yet, "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill.' Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 ページ
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust! Yet, Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | George Fulton - 1826 - 456 ページ
...more distinct, and does not at all hurt the harmony of the verse; as in the following sentences: 1. "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear...writing, or in judging ill : But of the two, less dang Vous is tk* offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. 2. Say what the-use — were... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 ページ
...them by the ancients ver. HO to 180. Reverence due to the ancients, anf praise of them, ver. 1S1, fyc. — Live iu peace— Adieu. ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE. WHAT Is prudery? Tis lese dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our een>p. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | 1826 - 82 ページ
...antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. Thus in the following couplet from Pope : v "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. „ The words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are therefore the emphatical words... | |
 | 1827 - 558 ページ
...obtain his pedigree by our next Number. 266 REPLY TO " A LOVER OF THE TRIGGER'S" SECOND LETTER. " 'Tie hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is th' of. fence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | 1829 - 642 ページ
...error as that to which Pope alludes, with his usual precision, in these lines;— " "Tis hard to cay, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than rnUlead our sense.** It is now well known that... | |
 | 1833 - 610 ページ
...Street. 1832. of public acknowledgment or distinction?' To tliis effusion we will merely add, — " Sure, of the two, less dang'rous is th" offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense." Professional opinion was always, however, against both the claim and the unqualified praise which bedecked... | |
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Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 
