...Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano, MS., Parte 3, lib. 8, cap. i. • Robertson, America, vol. iii. p. 5. 9 " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ," says the great bard of Reason. A fair criticism will apply the same rule to action as to writing, and,...

...that I should bear in mind some of his trite advice to critics embodied in the following lines : — "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...writ. Survey the whole nor seek slight faults to find When nature moves, and rapture warms the mind." * * * » " Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call But...

...application in various directions is a programme worthy of pursuit. A Close Look at Goodman's Symbol Systems "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...delight. The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit." Pope In a previous paper1 an attempt was made to provide a sympathetic rational reconstruction of some...

...34 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! the honey-comb Sin' they nailed him to the tree. (1....(the follmving 3 poems) 5 But first Elpenor came, our (Fr. II) 35 what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye,...

...Originals gehört, und die doch das Schone daran oft nicht empfunden haben. Hätten sie das, was in der * A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. Grundsprache in Ansehung des Gedankens, seiner Wendung, seines Ausdrucks, edel, fein, verdeckt, nur...

...make your deductions."4 Alexander Pope (1688—1744) stated in his Essay on Criticism of 1711 that "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit/ With the same Spirit that its Author writ."5 Locke's second to last phrase - "bring them to a consistency" - and Pope's insistence on the...

...'hermeneutics'. Its first principle is expressed by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, when he declares: "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit / With the same spirit that its author writ."29 What Lamb, speaking of correspondence, calls "my Now" and "your Now" and describes as "this...

...230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correct cold, and regularly low, 24°...

...contradicts Pope's absolutism. Lines 2 3 3-34 and 255-56 enunciate a truth relativists are apt to insist on: A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend. The phrase "perfect...

...way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correctly cold,...