 | 1822 - 284 pages
...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. Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more : / First follow nature ; and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...observation?" ^-J. " I think not." — B. " You will allow his ' Apology' to be well done." — J. " Very well done, to be sure, sir. That book is a striking...command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.' " — B. " And his plays are good?" — J. " Yes; but that was his trade ; V esprit du corps; he had... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...parte. Like kings, we lose the conquests galn'il 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... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1825 - 380 pages
...poetry but his own ? There is work for them all, if each would perform that of which he is capable : Each might his several province well command, , Would all but stoop to what they understand. be asked, What constitutes the best poetry ? that read and admired by the most persons ? or by the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...only in the room, and durst not draw in the other." BOSWELL. " Yet Cibber was a man of observation." JOHNSON. " I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow...are good." JOHNSON. " Yes ; but that was his trade ; ' 1'esprit du corps ;' he had been all his life among players and play-writers. I wondered that he... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...parts ; 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. In repeating these lines, we shall find it necessary to form the cadence, by giving the falling inflection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...other." BOSWELL : " But Gibber was a man of observation ?" JOHNSON : " I think not." lloswLi.i. : " You will allow his ' Apology* to be well done." JOHNSON...proof of the justice of Pope's remark : ' Each might hi* several province well command. Would all but stoop to what they understand.' " BOSWELL : " And... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...the other." BOSWELL: " But Gibber was a man of observation ?" JOHNSON : " I think not." BOSWELI. : " 낀 Ƶ킀 ( 쵀 ilone, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark : ' Each mlßht... | |
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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 of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. 
