 | 1895 - 646 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, pass'd, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last: Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass." Unfortunately, many of these frauds, with their elevated eyebrows, positive voices and a contempt for... | |
 | 1895 - 768 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets pass'd ; 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. Pope, EG 36. Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And curious thoughts struck out at ev'ry line—... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. Those half-learned witlings, num'rous in our isle, 40 As half-formed insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 ページ
...past, Turn'd Criticks next, and prov'd plain Fools at last ; Some neither can for Wits nor Criticks pass, As heavy Mules are neither Horse nor Ass. Those...on the Banks of Nile; Unfinish'd Things, one knows now what to call, Their Generation's so equivocal: To tell 'em, wou'da hundred Tongues require, Or... | |
 | John E. Sitter - 1971 - 146 ページ
...critics nor poets as "halfform'd Insects on the Banks of Nile," and named them as best he could— Unfinish'd Things, one knows not what to call, Their Generation's so equivocal. (EOC, I, 41-43) But in the Dunciad he turns a casual epithet into an actual principle of metaphorical... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 ページ
...having figured as wits, poets, and critics, must be content at last to prove themselves mere fools, as half-learn'd Witlings, num'rous in our Isle, 40 As...not what to call, Their Generation's so equivocal . . . When Pope, after a lifetime of warfare with such buzzing 'Insects' as these came to write the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. Those half-learned widings, numerous in our isle, 40 As half-formed insects on the banks of Nile; Unfinished... | |
 | Gary Clifford Gibson - 2007 - 685 ページ
...Criticks pass, As heavy Mules are neither Horse or Ass. 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 now what to call, Their Generation's so equivocal: To tell 'em, wou'da hundred Tongues require, Or... | |
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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. 
