In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. Bell's Edition - Page 48by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
| Jacob Neusner - 1976 - 214 pages
...indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus? Pope's variant in the Essay on Criticism is given by Steiner: Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And, if the means... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...» " Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call But the joint force and full result of all." # # » * " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." And again — " You then, whose judgment the right course would steer Know well each ancient's proper... | |
| Richard M. Martin - 1983 - 248 pages
...do. No one ever does what he is doing well enough to be exempt from all possibility of improvement. "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." Also there is always the problem of determining the comparative value of what is being done, relative... | |
| Earnie Larsen - 1991 - 388 pages
...well, let us own up to our buried anger. Hidden anger can kill me. I must recognize it and address it. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor shall be. — Alexander Pope Perfectionism is complex and subtle. Out loud, few of us would say, "Perfection... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. 8875 An Essay on Criticism ffice in Washington either grows or swells, and when 1 give a man an office, I watch him c 8876 An Essay on Criticism Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a fauldess piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means... | |
| Cornelis Dekker - 1999 - 504 pages
...generously given their support. In conclusion, let me refer to Alexander Pope's famous commonplace: "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be" (Essay on Criticism II, 253-254). I apologize for any errors remaining in this book; they are entirely... | |
| James Grainger - 2000 - 354 pages
...Work of Wit With the same Spirit that its Author writ, [...] In ev'ry Work regard the Writer's End, Since none can compass more than they Intend; And...true, Applause, in spite of trivial Faults, is due. (Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 11. 233-4, 255-8) Grainger began the Preface to the published version... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...found, founded: to make come into being bind, bound: to confine bound, bounded: to mark the confines of Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er will be. -Pope, Essay on Criticism Pope added: To err is human, to forgive, divine. (Any suggestions... | |
| William N Hoover - 2003 - 278 pages
...work to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend, And...true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. WJ McKnight It is the editor's intention and desire that the publication of Grass Flats brings recognition... | |
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