 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...iso 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 the judgment,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...iso 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 the judgment,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1856 - 396 pages
...describes. and, while he describes, exemplilies : 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. Essay on Criticism. St. Paul's— it.a-xiaroTffos... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 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... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1859 - 720 pages
...seen in the Pronouncing Dictionary. Allowable rhymes, bake, lake, &c., neck, speck, &c. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. — PoPE. • ACT. hack'd. &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in ake, as... | |
 | Wolfgang Raible - Literary form - 1990 - 354 pages
...Imagination und Leidenschaft oft wichtiger als Vernunft und Common Sense. Pope formulierte: Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common Track. Great Wits Mimetimes may gloriousfy äffend, And risc to l-'aults t nie Criticks dare not mend; 222 From vulgär... | |
 | Richard H. Weisberg - Law - 1992 - 344 pages
...End) Some Lucky LICENCE answers to the full Th'Intent propos'd, that Licence is a Rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common Track. Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to Faults true Criticks dare not mend; From vulgar Bounds... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy Nature is to copy them. (Fr. I) 30 Thus Pegasus, iTA; LiTM; MoAB; MoAmPo; NAAL-2; OAEL-2; OBMV Journey of the Ma From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee - Art - 1994 - 224 pages
...end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th'intent proposed, that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 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... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...1758). Correspondence, II, 96-7. Italics mine. 5 "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. . . ." Essay on Criticism, I, 152-5. Reynolds,... | |
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