 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 153 May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise...part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 1 55 Which, without passing thro' the judgment, gain* The heart, and all its end at once attains. In... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out to them in the familiar couplet — ' From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." Nor have many schools retained their influence longer; forCrabbe was wittily described as ' Pope in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; J *• } 160J From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 15* Which, without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 422 pages
...angular inflection. Expression ap. plies to the whole form, or entire character. ESSAY IV. ON GRACE. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. POPE. GRACEFULNESS, which may be termed the beauty of motion, is an idea not very different from beauty,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...altogether doe well."* 12. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its ends at once obtains.-!Here... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...licence is a rule. * Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly .deviate from the common track ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...that licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...that licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing thro' the jndgement, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - Aesthetics - 1809 - 442 pages
...similar to that which in the words of Pope, is so often repeated, and so generally misunderstood: " Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, " And...part, " And snatch a grace beyond the reach of Art." ESSAY ON CRITICISM. It is surely injudicious to represent the higher beauties of an art, as attainable... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - Aesthetics - 1809 - 466 pages
...similar to that which in the words of Pope, is so often repeated, and so generally misunderstood: " Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, " And...part, " And snatch a grace beyond the reach of Art." ESSAY ON CRITICISM. It is surely injudicious to represent the higher beauties of an art, as attainable... | |
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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, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. 
