 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1892 - 316 pages
...moderns prize. Thus wit, like faith, by each man is apply'd To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last ; Tho' each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard not, then,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...moderns prize. Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last ; Though each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard not then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 pages
...prize. 395 Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damned beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, 400 But ripens spirits in cold northern climes ; Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...Moderns prize. Thus Wit, like Faith, by each man is apply'd To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force that sun but on a part to shine, Lord Roscommon says, Tlie sound is still a comment to the sfftsf. They are both well expressed : only... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...prize. Thus Wit, like Faith, by each man is apply 'd To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force that sun but on a part to shine, Lord Roscommpn says, „ hardly ascertained from a study of his FragThe sound is still a comment to... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...moderns prize. Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damned beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, 4°° But ripens spirits in cold northern climes ; Which from the first has shone on ages past, F.nlights... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last ; Tho' each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard not, then,... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...modern prize. Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. POPE, 235 The protractive trials of great Jove To find persisting constancy in man. TROIL. AND CRESS.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...tire. POPE. No longer now the golden age appears, When patriarch wits survived a thousand years POPE. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. POPE. Some have at first for wits, then poets, pass'd ; Turn'd crities next, and proved plain fools... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 pages
...• • Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force...shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, 400 R,. Though each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard... | |
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To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine. And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes... 
