 | Mr. Harrison (Ralph) - 1812 - 118 pagina’s
...most remember, and quote either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. And it' the means... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pagina’s
...250 » No monstrous height, or breadth, or length, appear ; The whole at once is bold and regular. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, 255 Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the... | |
 | 1814 - 780 pagina’s
...subdued. In Bibliography — if in :iuy other pursuit — it may fairly and emphatically be said: •• Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall bef Yours, &c. TF DIBDIN. PS Until pointed out to me by Mr. Roscoe, I was not aware that the article... | |
 | 1814 - 752 pagina’s
...in any other pursuit — it may fairly and emphatically be said : " Whoever thinks a faultless piuce to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be J." Yotirs, &c. T, F. DIBDIN. PS Until pointed out to me by Mr. Roscoe, I was not aware that the article... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1815 - 918 pagina’s
...belie the well kuown truth so aptly indicated by Pope, where he says, " Wh«CT«r '• Whoever Ihinki a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." iBut I should be sorry to be compelled to point those faults out, lest I should rather betray my own... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pagina’s
...In like mauner, with the fairest of her danghters, Eve. As Pope says, " Whoever thinks a fanltless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." Pious old gentlemen, however, pronounced her perfect, merely becanse they gazed on the image of the... | |
 | Benjamin Starkey - 1818 - 42 pagina’s
...your patience and candour, you will hear me out, and, as a certain Poet justly expresses himself — " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, " Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." And as he advises, so I hope my readers will " Small faults excuse, and what they can, commend." For... | |
 | Sir James Stonhouse - 1818 - 300 pagina’s
...not be executed to his satisfaction, or be agreeable to his ideas. Whoever thinks a faultless book to see, Thinks what ne.er was, nor is, nor e.er shall be. Pope.s Essay on Criticism. Few, it is presumed, can have the vanity to think themselves exempted from... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 378 pagina’s
...are one or two other trilling inaccuracies in the pamphlet, which afford demonstrative proof that " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." Indeed, as every work hitherto stereotyped, clearly manifests, it is not possible that first editions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pagina’s
...No monstrous height, or hreadth, or length appear : The whole at once is hold, and regular. Whoerer thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall he. ln every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the... | |
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, 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,... 
