 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...yourselves have made. p. ~PoFE--Dunciad. Bk. IV. Line 125. A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey..."find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind. q. FOPE— Essay on Criticism. Line 235. Be not the first by whom the new are tryd, Nor yet the last... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...arise! 13Cf. Roscommon, At Essay on Translated Verse (1684): A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey...mind; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charmed with wit.14 But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow,15 Correctly cold,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...wandring Eyes, Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect Judge will read each Work of Wit With the same Spirit that its Author writ, Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find, 235 Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull Delight, The... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 586 pages
...edition of Pope's Essay on Criticism suggest that this line is the origin of Pope's more famous couplet: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find, Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind. In his preface to Sylva (Works, III, i4) and his dedication of Examen Poeticum (i693, sigs. A$-Aj;... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...fit, And wisely curb'd proud Man's pretending Wit . . . A perfect Judge will read each Work of Wit 233 With the same Spirit that its Author writ, Survey...Mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull Delight, The gen'rous Pleasure to be charm'd with Wit . . . In Wit, as Nature, what affects our Hearts 243 Is not... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...advice to critics embodied in the following lines : — "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ. Survey the whole nor seek slight faults to find When nature moves, and rapture warms the mind." * * * » " Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call But... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...worthy of pursuit. A Close Look at Goodman's Symbol Systems "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey...delight. The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit." Pope In a previous paper1 an attempt was made to provide a sympathetic rational reconstruction of some... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wand'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit tree. (1. 49-54) CMoP; LiTA; LiTM; MoAB; MoAmPo; MoBS;...(the follmving 3 poems) 5 But first Elpenor came, our (Fr. II) 35 what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correct cold, and regularly low, 24°... | |
 | Grant Ian Thrall - Science - 2002 - 274 pages
...wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ, Survey...mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correctly cold,... | |
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Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves,... 
