 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 himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 227by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...our sense. Some few in tliat, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in...in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noue Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...sense, Except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Bentley. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own. Pope. The diadem, with mighty projects lined To catch renown by ruining mankind ; Is worth, with all... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...sense'; Some few in that', but num-bers err in iAts*, Ten cen-sure wrong for one who writes amiss* : A fool might once him-self alone expose' ; Now', one in verse makes many more in prase*. Some place the bliss in ec-tion*, some', ift ease*; Those call it pleas-tire', and con-te»i-ment',... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - German literature - 1839 - 362 pages
...unfern Ufa ven. Keine gefjt mit ber anbern oollfommen д1е(ф, unb jcbec glaubt bod) ber fcinigen: "fis with our Judgments as our Watches , none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 3d) rocil nid)te meijr ju fagen, ale bap id) oielieidjt fd)on }U »id gefagt l;abc. Cetpjig, im Xpdlmonat,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. SOUTH'S Sermons. IT is with our judgments as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own. POPE. TRUTH will be uppermost, some time or other, like cork, though kept down in water. — SIR WILLIAM... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...forty shillings to try, I will show you what I can do.—Tucker's Light of Nature. Judgments.—It is with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.—Pope. Luxury.—When I behold a fashionable table set out ia all its magnificence, I fancy that... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...settles it on the broader and more solid basis of conviction. — -WHITE. IT is with our judgment* as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own. POPE. KIMMERIDGE COAL-MONEY. THESE mysterious relics, whose origin and use have completely baffled... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1840 - 576 pages
...unfern Uf)« ren. .feine geE)t mit ber anbern »ollt'ommcn gldd), unb jeber glaubt bod) ber feinigen: 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike , yet each believes liis own. 3d) »été nid)tê mefjr §u fagen, ûla baß id) Bt'etlet'd)t fdjon }u ciel gefagt t)«6c.... | |
 | 206 pages
...mislead our sense, Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose Now one in verse makes many more in prose. So pithy and correct is Pope generally that very many of his lines are now axioms, and if the wounded... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...sense*; Some few in that', but m/.m-bc-rs err in lhis\ Ten era-sure wrong for one who writes amiss* : A fool might once him-self alone expose*; Now', one in verse makes' many more in prose*. Some place the bliss in ac-tion*, some', in ease* ; Those call it plea.s-\\re*, and con-tent-ment',... | |
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