 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...sitadebft Utilitas, hanc, relictis maKtitmrum butoritaUbus, sequemur." — QUINTIL, lib. ii. cap. 11 ur native shore, liut, oh ! relieve a wretched parent's...avenging l'hœbus, son of Jove." The Greeks in shouts th compell'd by need ; And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...Great W its sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend. But tin.)' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings dispense...precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The Critic else proceeds without remorse;... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compelí 'd by need, And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise ; The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end ; 5 1 Maro — Virgil. 2 To outlast immortal Rome — ie Rome, self-styled "Eternal Rome;" without... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...please our eyes, Which out-of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it he seldom, and compelt'd by need, And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The critic else proceeds... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Which out of Nature's common order rise, I The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. J 160 But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings dispense...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need ; 165 And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The Critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...answer to the full The intent proposed, that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 150 But though the ancients thus their rules invade ;As...dispense with laws themselves have made, Moderns, heware ! or, if you must offend Against the precept, ne*er transgress its end : Let it he seldom, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need ; And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...precipice. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to Omits true critics dare, not mend. But though the ancients thus their rules invade (As...themselves have made,) Moderns, beware ! or, if you must olTend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end Let it be seldom, and cornpollM by need ; And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 332 pages
...precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (Askings dispense with laws themselveshave made) Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend Against...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need ; And have at least their precedent to plead ; The critic else proceeds without remorse,... | |
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But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,) Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compelled by need; And have, at least, their... 
