 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...errors must the less commit. POPE. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. POPE. 650 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... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 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. 45 PRIDE. V (An Essay on Criticism, Ft. II., II. 1-32.) Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...production of animals without parents. Many of the creatures on th« -(*(> tut-" AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. To tell 'em 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 - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...Equivocal generation is the production of animals without parents. Many of the creatures on the 86 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, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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 - 1893 - 566 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 - 1893 - 176 pages
...insects on the banks of Nile ; TJnfinish'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. 45 But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...Nile ; Uufinish'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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...Nile ; Unfinished 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...errors must the less commit. POPE. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. POPE. 65' 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... | |
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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... 
