| Edmund Burke - 1785 - 652 halaman
...and Is fometimes a proof both of good tafte and of great genius. Great wits fometimes mayglorioufly offend, And rife to faults true critics dare not mend...»-From vulgar bounds with brave difordcr part, And inarch a grace beyond the reach of irt. ! am the more anxious to mark, and to dwell on this diftinclion,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 halaman
...wifli them away. How ftrikingly does it exemplify what Pope fays in his Eflay on Criticifm, 1. 159. Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend. From the many notes fubjoined to the other poems, various infiances of the Editor's labour, erudition, and... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 halaman
...Some lucky licence anlwer tho the full Th' intent propos'd, that licence is a ru-le. Thus Pegafus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track, From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Which, without... | |
| Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 halaman
...end) Some lucky licence anfwers to the full TV intent propos'd, that licence is a rule. Thus Pegafus a nearer way to take,. May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits fometimcs may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true criticks dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 halaman
...end), Some lucky Licence anfwer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule. Thus Pegafus, armth The gratitude declare That fj'ows fomctimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds... | |
| John Aikin - 1796 - 374 halaman
...anfwers its purpofe, • that Licence is a rule; but he confufes all again by the oftenquoted maxim, Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend; for he ought rather to have concluded that fuch fuccefbful deviations from common practice are not... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 halaman
..., Some lucky Licence anfwerto the full Th' intent propos 'd, that Licence is a rule. Thus Pega fus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits fomctimes may gloiiouily ofiend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 halaman
...anfwer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule. Thus PegafuSi a nearer way to take, 150 May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits...Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And match a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 NOTES. " Non ratione aliqua (fays Quintilian... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 halaman
...is a rule. Thus Pegafus, a nearer way to take, 150 May boldly deviate from the common track. Qreat Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to...Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 NOTES. " Non ratione aliqua (fays Quintilian... | |
| George Chalmers - 1797 - 656 halaman
...; which furnifti additional proofs of the truth of that wellknown axiom : •' Great wits fomttimes may glorioufly offend, " And rife to faults true critics dare not mend." pers, a deed of tntft ; and it is denominated, by the public accufer, with his greater knowledge of... | |
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