 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...Nile ; Unfinished things, one knows not wh.it to call, Their generation's so equivocal: To tell them would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tiro. But you, who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, irte sure yourself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...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 might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...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 might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...; 41 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 might a hundred tire. But you, who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...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 might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...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,...vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a Critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...Equivocal generation is the production of animals without parents. Many of the creatures on tie 86 !W To tell 'em would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire.1 But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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,...vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...errors must the less commit. POPE. A wit with dances, and a dunce with wits. POPE. WIT. To tell them would a hundred tongues require; Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. POPE. No longer now the golden age appears, When patriarch wits survived a thousand years. POPE. Meanly... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...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 might a hundred tire. But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach... | |
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em, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 45 But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a Critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, How far your genius, taste, and learning... 
