 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselveshave made) Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise ; The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 160 But though the ancients thus their rules invade, As...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead : The critic else proceeds without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedentjtp plead. The critic else proceeds without rembrse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...wits sometimes may gloriously offend1, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend. 160 But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings dispense...precept, ne'er transgress its End; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead. The Critic else proceeds without remorse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...rise,4 The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.' But though the ancients thus their6 rules mvade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,')...offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end ; 153 16C mnr. Quintil. lib. ii. cap. 13. — POPE. 1 Dryden' s Aurengzebe : Mean noul, and 1iir'at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 160 But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...have made) Moderns, beware ! or if you must offend x\gainst the precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need, And have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...wits sometimes may gloriously offend1, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend. 160 But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings dispense with laws themselves have made) Modems, beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its End; Let it be seldom,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...please our eyes, Which out of nature's common order rise; The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end. V. Still green with bays each ancient altar stands, Above the reach of sacrilegious hands; Secure from... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws, And is himself that great sublime he draws. POPE. And though the ancients thus their rules invade. As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ; Modems, beware ! or, if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end. POPE. New... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...our eyes, i Which out of nature's common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. I t60 But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As...precept, ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need ; And have at least their precedent to plead ; The critic else proceeds without remorse,... | |
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But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,) Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compelled by need; And have, at least, their... 
