 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1809 - 64 ページ
...Some have at first for Wits, then Poets past, Turn'd Critics next, and prov'd plain Fools at last. Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy...neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn'd witlings, numerous in our isle As half form'd insects on the banks of Nile : Unfinished things one knows not... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, past, 36 turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, as heavy...unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, their generation 's so equivocal ; to tell them would a hundred tongues require, or one vain wit's, that... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, past, 36 turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, as heavy...unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, their generation 's so equivocal ; to tell them would a hundred tongues require, or one vain wit's, that... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 ページ
...critics pass, lies are neither horse not a*%. Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle, • as half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile; unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, their generation 's so equivocal ; to tell them would a hundred tongues require, or one vain wit's, that... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets past, Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last: Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. Those Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rovp in our isle, As half-form'd insecU on the banks of Nile • Unfinish'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 ページ
...wits, then poets past,Turn'd critics next: and prov'd plain foojs at last. Some neither can for wits or critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse, nor ass. Those half-learn'd witlings nnm'roul in our isle, As half-funn'd insects on the banks of Nile, I :i in I i'i I things o:ie knows... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 ページ
...puss, A> heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn 'd witlings, numerous in our isle, As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows nut what to call, Their generation's so equivocal : To tell them would a hundred tongues require, Or... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 ページ
...abortive poems ; whether spawned from the dramatic, or narrative species, it may be hard to say — Unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal. However, such as they are, these novelties have been generally well received : Some, for the real merit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, past, 36 Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy...not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal ; To tell them would an hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's that might an hundred tire. 45 But... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, past, Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy...not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal; \ To tell them would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 45 But... | |
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As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal : To tell 'em, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 
