 | 1865 - 496 pages
...Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics (42) dare not mend. Eut though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings...dispense with laws themselves have made,') Moderns beware ! (43) or, if you must oft'end Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end: 160 1.58. Eeetling cliff.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...than their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have nwlc,'} Moderns beware ! (43) or, if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end: 1 5S. Beetling cliff. 159. Superior intellects occasionally; grandly transgress. 160. Breaches of conventionalities;... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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 remorse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1866 - 356 pages
...rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade,(As kings dispense with laws themselves have made) Moderns,...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 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 kings dispense with laws themselveshave made) Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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 precedentjtp plead. The critic else proceeds without rembrse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise ; The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 160 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 - 1869 - 570 pages
...wits sometimes may gloriously offend1, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend. 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; And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The Critic else proceeds without remorse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...rise,4 The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.' But though the ancients thus their6 rules mvade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,')...offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end ; 153 16C mnr. Quintil. lib. ii. cap. 13. — POPE. 1 Dryden' s Aurengzebe : Mean noul, and 1iir'at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 160 But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...have made) Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend x\gainst the precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need, And have... | |
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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... 
