...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,...

...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...

...the ancients ver. HO to 180. Reverence due to the ancients, anf praise of them, ver. 1S1, fyc. 'Tis ive iu peace— Adieu. ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE. WHAT Is prudery? Tis lese dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our een>p. Some few in that, but numbers...

...the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. Thus in the following couplet from Pope : v "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. „ The words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are therefore the emphatical words...

...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...

...hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writin or in judging ill; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our...sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once alone himself expose, 4a</ceijj3iirelfreely...

...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...

...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...

...— the worst harm they can do is to burthen the memory with what is unintelligible, and certainly -Less dang'rous is th' offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." But when we have a foreign name for a distinct species, the use of it is decidedly preferable. Now...

...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...