 | John Newbery - 1762 - Liczba stron: 292
...the limits of our genius, and judgment, before we attempt to criticife on others. But you who feek to give and merit fame, And juftly bear a critic's noble name, Be fure yourfelf and your own reach to know,. How far your genius, tafte, and learning go ; Launch not beyond... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - Liczba stron: 378
...half-learn'd witlings, num'rcjs in our ifle, 40 As half-fonn'd infefts on the banks of Nile ; Unfinifh'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's...require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 4 ; But you who feek to give and merit fame, And juftly bear a Critic's noble name, Be fure yourfelf... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - Liczba stron: 410
...half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our ifle, 40 As half-form'd infefts on the banks of Nile ; Unfinifb/d things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's...require, . • Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tirei 45 But you who feek to give and merit famej And juftly bear a critic's noble name^ Be fure yourfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 412
...Nile ; Unfinifh'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation 's fo equivocali To tell them, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 4.5 But you, who feek to give and merit fame, And juftly bear a Critic's noble name, Be fure yourfelf... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - Liczba stron: 322
...Witlings, num'rous in our Ifle As half-form'd infers on the banks of Nile ; Unflnifli'd , . Unfinifh'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's...require, Or one vain Wit's that might a hundred tire'. BSSA-Y ON CRITICISM, v. I. p. 7J>_ THE RULES OF NATURE. FIRST follow Nature, and your judgment frame... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - Liczba stron: 738
...REVIEW; OR, ^ERARY JOURNAL: •/ • F;om JULY to DECEMBER, incfajive, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. ' But you who feek to give and merit Fame, ' And juftly bear a Critic's noble name— For the worft avarice is that of Senfe. Be niggards of advice on no pretence, With mean complacence... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - Liczba stron: 966
...half-learn 'd witlings, num'ious in our ifle. , As half-form'd infefts on the banks of Nile ; Unfinifli'd fwcet rctir'd content I To be at once fccure and innocent....ftrength) above the valley fwells Into my eye, and doth leek to give and merit fame, And juftly bear a Critic's noble name, Be furc yourfe'.f and your own... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - Liczba stron: 282
...horum eft, premitur quibus Anglia, quantum Imperfjfta fcatcnt ripis animalcola Nili, .Futile Unfinifh'd things one knows not what to call, Their generation's fo equivocal : To tell 'em, wou'da hundred tongues require, •Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. But you who feek to... | |
 | 1794 - Liczba stron: 918
...; 41 Unfinifh'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation 's fo equivocal: To tell them would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. But you, who feek to give and merit fame, And jullly bear a critic's nuble name, Be fure yourfclf and your own reach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - Liczba stron: 264
...half-leam'd witlings, num'rous in our Me, 40} As half-tbrm'd infefts on the banks of Nile ; UnfinmVd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's fo equivocal ; To tell them would an hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might an hundred tire. 45 But you svho... | |
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em, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 45 But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a Critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, How far your genius, taste, and learning... 
