 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...work by the side of the facile grace of the lines with which Pope's " Essay on Criticism " * opens : " 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; * Of course the commentators have been over this poem ; they have proved that where Pope wrote "... | |
 | Everhardus Johannes Potgieter - Denmark - 1886 - 440 pages
...oog zouden willen brengen, zoo Pope geen volkomen waarheid sprak, in zijn Essay on Criticlsm : 't Is hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in jndging ill ; But of the two, less dangerons is the offeuce, To tire onr patience, than mislead onr... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...1929. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM 1711 Part I [On the formation of taste and judgment in critics and poets] 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offense To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...its Revival. Erasmus, v 693. Vida, v 705. Boileau, v 714. Lord Roscommon, &c. V 725. Conclusion. An Essay on Criticism 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want...in Writing or in Judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense : Some few in that, but Numbers... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 464 pages
...undue remarks an answer in the nature of a quotation from the Essay on Criticism of Alexander Pope: " 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear...in writing, or in judging ill; But of the two, less UMngeious is ii;e nfL'enee To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...will enable me to indicate, and to preserve the general outline of the essay. Premising that — " Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill, Appear in writing or in judging ill." And that— " 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...ease in writing comes from art. not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance —Pope) <'tis hard to say, if greater want of skill appear in writing or in judging \))—Pope) Both words are also used concretely with these implications <there's a great art in doing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...things — but his horse. BoLoP; EBEV; NAEL-1; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OPOP; PoEL-3; PPP Essay on Criticism 21 thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous (Fr. I) 22 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. (Fr.... | |
 | Dieter Martin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 472 pages
...Drey Gedichte | von dem | Verfasser der vermischten Werke | in | verschiedenen Arten der Dichtkunst. | "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill | Appear in writing or in judging ill: | But of the two, leß dang'rous is th'offense, | To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense. | Pope Ess. on Critic.... | |
 | Lewis Turco - Criticism - 1999 - 242 pages
...clause, not merely a phrase or dependent clause. Here is the first sentence of Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism": 'Tis hard to say, if greater...in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' otfence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. [It is hard to say \vhether... | |
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Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th... 
