 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...but reftrain'd By the fame laws which firft herfelf ordain'd. I'BID. p. 76,. BOLDNESS IN COMPOSITION, GREAT Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare rrot mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1783 - 862 pages
...Great wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true criticks dare not mend :— r— From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art. I am the more anxious to mark, and to dwell or\ this diftinction, becaufe the French... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1785 - 652 pages
...and Is fometimes a proof both of good tafte and of great genius. Great wits fometimes mayglorioufly offend, And rife to faults true critics dare not mend :— • »-From vulgar bounds with brave difordcr part, And inarch a grace beyond the reach of irt. ! am the more anxious to mark, and to dwell... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 pages
...wifli them away. How ftrikingly does it exemplify what Pope fays in his Eflay on Criticifm, 1. 159. Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend. From the many notes fubjoined to the other poems, various infiances of the Editor's labour, erudition, and... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 pages
...that licence is a ru-le. Thus Pegafus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track, From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Which, without patting through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...Thus Pegafus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits fomctimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics...; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And lhatcli a grace beyond the reach of art; Which, without paffing through the judgment, gains The heart,... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...from the common track. Great wits fometimcs may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true criticks dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, .And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Whicli, without paffing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits fomctimes may gloiiouily ofiend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend ; From...brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the reach of ait ; \Vhich, without palfing through the judgment, The heart, and all its end at once attains,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1796 - 374 pages
...anfwers its purpofe, • that Licence is a rule; but he confufes all again by the oftenquoted maxim, Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend; for he ought rather to have concluded that fuch fuccefbful deviations from common practice are not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...boldly deviate from the cammon track. Great wits fometimes may gloriou(ty oifend, And rife to (aults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave diforder part, And match a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 Which, without pafiing thro' the judgment, gains The heart,... | |
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May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through... 
