 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pagina’s
...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 yomr judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : 'Unerring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pagina’s
...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. Erst follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring... | |
 | Aesop - 1869 - 308 pagina’s
...Not every one that goes in red, And wears a feather in his head, Must straight a man of war be said. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. FABLE LXXIV. THE MOUNTAINS IN LABOUR. IN a certain district the Mountains reechoed with strange and... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagina’s
...not.' EOSWELL : ' 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...command, Would all but stoop to what they understand."' EOSWELL : ' And his plays are good.' JOHNSON : ' Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du corps;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...not.' BOSWELL : ' 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...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 pagina’s
...not." BOSWELL. " 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...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
