 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...that I should bear in mind some of his trite advice to critics embodied in the following lines : — "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...writ. Survey the whole nor seek slight faults to find When nature moves, and rapture warms the mind." * * * » " Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call But... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...application in various directions is a programme worthy of pursuit. A Close Look at Goodman's Symbol Systems "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight. The generous... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...34 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! the honey-comb Sin' they nailed him to the tree. (1....MoAmPo; MoBS; OFD; PoRA; TrCP; TrGrPo CANTOS (the Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; (Fr. II) 35 what affects our hearts Is not the exactness... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1988 - 480 pages
...Originals gehört, und die doch das Schone daran oft nicht empfunden haben. Hätten sie das, was in der * A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. Grundsprache in Ansehung des Gedankens, seiner Wendung, seines Ausdrucks, edel, fein, verdeckt, nur... | |
 | Robert Scott Leventhal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 372 pages
...make your deductions."4 Alexander Pope (1688—1744) stated in his Essay on Criticism of 1711 that "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit/ With the same Spirit that its Author writ."5 Locke's second to last phrase - "bring them to a consistency" - and Pope's insistence on the... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - Anthropology in literature - 1996 - 336 pages
...'hermeneutics'. Its first principle is expressed by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, when he declares: "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit / With the same spirit that its author writ."29 What Lamb, speaking of correspondence, calls "my Now" and "your Now" and describes as "this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correct cold,... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...contradicts Pope's absolutism. Lines 2 3 3-34 and 255-56 enunciate a truth relativists are apt to insist on: A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend. The phrase "perfect... | |
 | Grant Ian Thrall - Science - 2002 - 274 pages
...way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous... | |
 | Derek B. Purchas, K Sutherland - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 606 pages
...Criticism by that earlier bitingly witty author Alexander Pope: The perfect fudge will read each word of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind. In reality, a technical book is inevitably and very... | |
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A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to... 
