| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 páginas
...can claim our submission by a similar title. We must recollect also that the same poet says : — " Let those teach others, who themselves excel. And censure freely, who have written well." It may be questioned whether the Iliad would have been much improved, " Had e'en the Stagyrite o'erlooked... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such s dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one : So sl Authors arc partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too ! Vet if we... | |
| 206 páginas
...wounded aspirants to literary fame, desire to retaliate they employ his weapons. The gentle thus Let such teach others who themselves excel And censure freely who have written well ; Authors are partial to their wit 'tis true ; But are not critics to their judgment too ? The more... | |
| H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 páginas
...that in equipage and dress , Englishmen excel all other Europeans. (Bulwer's England.) , .• Let such teach others who themselves excel, : :•, And censure freely who have written well. . . (Pope's Essay on Critic.) Tasso, in his Aminta, has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as... | |
| Samuel Hanson Cox - 1842 - 192 páginas
...I wish its style were incomparably better; but such as it is—may the wise make the best of it! " Let those teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well." Besides, every man, amid gifts differing, seems to have his own proper gift of God for edification.... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 páginas
...Pope appears to have considered the censorial authority as their exclusive prerogative: — " Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well." 694. Byron on the " Vanity of Human Wishes." Read Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes" — all the examples... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 páginas
...Pope appears to have considered the censorial authority as their exclusive prerogative: — " Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well." 694. Byron on the " Vanity of Human Wishes.'1 Read Johnson's " Vanity of Human Wishes" — all the... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 páginas
...must alike from heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too ? Yet, if we... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 páginas
...must alike from Hcav'n derive their light, These born to judge, as w:ell as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not Critics to their judgment too? POR ALEXANDRE... | |
| Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 580 páginas
...tranquil hours. It would, indeed, be too much to say, as in the well-known couplet of Pope, Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well ; 1 for the critic requires only one of the two great talents, which, in the poet, ought to exist together,... | |
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