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How the wit brightens! how the style refines! - Essay on Criticism (l. 421) [Wit] If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? - Essay on Criticism (l. 446) [Wit] To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! - Essay on Criticism (l. 520) [Praise] Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Essay on Criticism (l. 522) [Forgiveness] All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. - Essay on Criticism (l. 568) [Suspicion] Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. - Essay on Criticism (l. 578) [Advice] Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. - Essay on Criticism (l. 582) [Anger] The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. - Essay on Criticism (l. 612) [Stupidity] With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. - Essay on Criticism (l. 618) [Plagiarism] For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. - Essay on Criticism (l. 82) [Wit] 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. - Essay on Criticism (l. 9) [Judgment] The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. - Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 100) [Criticism] Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. - Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 177) [Strategy] So by false learning is food sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. - Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 25) [Folly] Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. - Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 6) [Criticism] The line too labours, and the words move slow. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 171) [Criticism] Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 230) [Opinion] A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 235) [Criticism] In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 255) [Authorship : Criticism] Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266) [Envy : Proverbs] Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 32) [Mountains] Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 336) [Criticism : Fidelity] Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 366) [Zephyrs] What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the Wit brightens! how the Style refines! - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 418) [Music : Poetry] We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 438) [Folly : Youth] Displaying page 17 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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