 You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done." JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 74by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...Several. — Separate. This use of the word was once common. Comp. Pope (Essay on Criticism, I. 66) : " Each might his several province well command Would all but stoop to what they understand." 29. Quarlers. — Lit., "divides into four parts;" but here the sense is neatly the same as in the... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...Cudvm-ih. " Like kings, we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more ; Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand." Pope. " Here I had ended ; but experience finds That sundry women are of sundry minds ; With various... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more : Each might his several province well command, "Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...well done.' JOHNSON ; ' Very well done, to be sure, sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark : " Each might his several province well command. Would all but stuop to what they understand/" BOSWELL : ' And his plays are good. ' JOHNSON : ' Yes ; but that was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...well done?" JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark : ' Each might his several province...command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.' " 1 Better known as Owen McSwinney, of her becoming a Protestant. She puhonce manager of Drury Lane,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...received the bcmirer of " Peg " Woffington, to whom he quest, bequeathed his money, on the condition BOSWELL. " And his plays are good." JOHNSON. "Yes; but that was his trade ; Vesprit du corps; he had been all his life among players and play-writers. I wondered that he had... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...single parts. Like kings we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more : Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring... | |
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877 - 620 pages
...single parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more. Each might his several province well command Would all but stoop to what they understand. POPE, Essays on Criticism, 52 to 66. I. SPIRIT. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation :... | |
 | Douglas Veitch - 1882 - 394 pages
...speech. Like kings, we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more ; Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.- -Pope. It is one thing to speak much, another to speak pertinently. December 5. What though the hand... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1882 - 238 pages
...they should be longer. — Cowper. Were my brave son at home, he would not suffer this. Goldsmith. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. — Pope. Hadst thou but shook thy head, or made a pause, When I spake darkly what I purposed, Or turn'd... | |
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