 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...can digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire, but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only, or the moderns prize. Tims wit, like... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...can digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For Fools admire, but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. [294 Some foreign writers, some our own despise; The ancients only, or the moderns prize : Thus wit,... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; 390 / For fools admire, but men of sense approve: As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise; The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize. 395 Gregos e Persas... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...pedantry of appealing to speculative principles in opposition to the decisions of taste; and what I As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize. 395 NOTES. despise... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...pedantry of appealing to speculative principles in opposition to the decisions of taste ; and what I As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize. 395 NOTES. despise... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...can digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire, but men of sense approve ; As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only, or the moderns prize. Thus wit, like... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...not each gay turn thy rapture move : 390 For foole admire, but шеп of sense approve : | As thingi ander Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only, or the moderns prize : Thus wit, like... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's eyes, when they look upon his own person. Pep*. As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Pope'i Sstay on Critieim. By nature's hand magnificently fed, His meal is on the range of mountains... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move : 390 For fools admire, but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only, or the moderns prize : Thus wit, like... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move : 390 For fools admire, hut men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Some foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only, or the modems prize : Thus wit, like... | |
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At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride or little sense : Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure the best Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire, but men... 
