 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...writers are scarce enough ; but then, I ask, where are the people that know how to read ?" 3. Let such teach others who themselves excel. And censure freely who have written well, j It is somewhere remarked by Dryden, I think, that none but a poet is qualified to judge of a poet.... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...obtainable by a constant attachment to the most finished performances of art. And when he adds, Let such teach others who themselves excel ; And censure freely who have written well, the maxim is not less erroneous : for the best poets are not always the surest critics, as in the case... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too ? Yet if we... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too ? Yet if we... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...must alike from Heav'n derive their light, These born to jndge, as well as those to write. .Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their jndgment too ? Yet if we... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 442 pages
...printed, the faults and abuses which every preacher should study to avoid : * See vol. III. disc. 4. and, as it may be of much service to some readers,...censure freely who have written well. " A preacher should avoid rambling upon general " or trivial subjects; such as are not to the purpose; " nor adapted... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...alike from Heaven derive their light« These born to judge, as well as those to write. ' Let' such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors arc partial to their wit, 'tis true; But are not critics to their judgment too? Yet if we look... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...must alike from heav'n derive their light, These horn to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Author* Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too? Yet,... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 424 pages
...concerning the different degree of heat in iires which were never kindled in his own bosom : " Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well." Of prose-men critics I have long been sick, from Warburton, Kames, and , down to , to ,• and Headly... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...Pope appears to have considered the censorial authorityas their exclusive prerogative." " Let fcuch teach others, who themselves excel, " And censure freely, who have written well." " That the maxim is founded in good sense, as long as the artist confines himself to general critical... | |
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Heaven derive their light. These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. 
