 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...eyes Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 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 - 1824 - 398 pages
...Which out of nature's common order rise, /• The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 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. COMMENTARY. conduct in this respect,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...eyes,") Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 16( 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. COMMENTARY. conduct in this respect,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...precipice. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true crities dare not mend. er'd out, when nature's feeble fires Glimmer' d their last; whose sluggish blood, half froze Moderns, beware ! or, if you must offend [made) ; Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end : Let... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...without passing through the judgment, gains The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 16(K But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings dispense with laws themselves have The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects, thus, some objects please our eyes,^ Which... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...precipice. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; 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 the precedent to plead : The critic else proceeds without remorse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...ancients thus their rules invade (AŤ kings dispense with laws themselves have made), Moderns, beware f or, if you must offend Against the 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sometimes may gloriously offend. And rise to faults true erities dure not mend. But though the aneients thus their rules invade (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made); Modems beware! or, if you must offend Against the preeept, ne'er transgress its end : Let it be seldom,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...precipice. Ureat wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; Hut though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have mad( Moderns, beware! orif you must offend \gainst the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 pages
...Saturnian from their ancitntncss, when Saturn reigned in Italy. Drydcit. And though tlic anc'n-nts thus their rules invade, As kings dispense with laws...have made ; Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend \gaiust the precept, ne'er transgress its end . Pope. AN'CIUNT. A corruption of Ensign. See ENSIGN.... | |
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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... 
