 | 1859 - 368 страници
...opportunity of entering our protest against it. Let writers follow Pope. He, as Johnson well remarks, was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel,...dared the judgment of his reader ; and expecting no indulgence from others he showed none to himsel£ Having opened our mouths, we may as well utter one... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 страници
...very little consideration : when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...no pecuniary interest he had no further solicitude. 4. Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavored to do his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 страници
...happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he bad no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude....dared the judgment of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 102 страници
...eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed. — Byron. 12. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel;...dared the judgment, of his reader; and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. — Johnson. THE END. raiHTED BY OLIVEB AND BOYD,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 страници
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude. 2. Pope was not content to satisfy: he desired to excel, and, therefore, always endeavored to do his... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 страници
...very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...dared the judgment of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 страници
...very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...satisfy; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavored to do his best : he did not court the candor, but dared the judgment of his reader, and,... | |
 | William Schofield Binns - 1872 - 130 страници
...possessive, and standf ing in the attributive relation to story ) substance. ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND SENTENCES. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel...dared the judgment, of his reader ; and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. 43. SENTENCE. KIND OF SENTENCE PHKASE. KIND OF PHRASE.... | |
 | 1872 - 660 страници
...very little consideration : when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude. touched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 страници
...very little consideration : when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed...no pecuniary interest he had no further solicitude. 4. Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavored to do his... | |
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... powers; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what... 
