 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 486 pages
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust ! Yet, 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging- ill. Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust ! Yet, "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill.' Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust! Yet, Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | George Fulton - 1826 - 456 pages
...distinct, and does not at all hurt the harmony of the verse; as in the following sentences: 1. "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill : But of the two, less dang Vous is tk* offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. 2. Say what the-use — were... | |
 | 1827 - 558 pages
...obtain his pedigree by our next Number. 266 REPLY TO " A LOVER OF THE TRIGGER'S" SECOND LETTER. " 'Tie hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is th' of. fence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | Rensselaer Bentley - 1829 - 254 pages
...contrasted with some other words either expressed or understood ; as in the folio wing passage ; " Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill : But of the two, less dangerous is the oSence To lire our patience, than mislead our sense." In this passage, the words in... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...error as that to which Pope alludes, with his usual precision, in these lines;— " "Tis hard to cay, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than rnUlead our sense.** It is now well known that... | |
 | 1833 - 610 pages
...Street. 1832. of public acknowledgment or distinction?' To tliis effusion we will merely add, — " Sure, of the two, less dang'rous is th" offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense." Professional opinion was always, however, against both the claim and the unqualified praise which bedecked... | |
 | 1829 - 514 pages
...error as that to which Pope alludes, with his usual precision, in these lines ;— " 'Tis hard to cay, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill i But of the two, less dangerous is the offence Tu tiic our patience, than muu«.! our sense." It is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the ancients, ver. MO to 180. Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them, ver. 181. fee. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
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Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. 
