 | Thomas Curtis - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829
...called Satumian from their ancientnei*, when Saturn reigned in Italy. Dryden. And though the ancient« thus their rules invade, As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ; Modems, beware ! or if you must offend 4gainst the precept, ne'er transgress its end. Pope. AN'CIENT.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 442 pages
...precipice. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. 160 0 S madej Moderns, beware ! or, if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end Let it... | |
 | Edward Clarkson - English poetry - 1830 - 188 pages
...sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. * * * * But if ypu must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need, And have at least good precedent to plead. Essay on Criticism. This is good sense,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835
...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 ; 165 And have, at least, their precedent to plead : The critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836
...gloriously offend, And rise to faults Hue critics dare not mend. 160 But though, the ancients thus tlieir rules invade {As kings dispense with laws themselves...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 - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...precipice. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. 160 ollow it. The thought in the last line is impertinent, having no connexion with the madr . Moderns, beware ! or, if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end Let it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
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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... 
