 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 trang
...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. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring... | |
 | 1866 - 328 trang
...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. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring... | |
 | 1866 - 294 trang
...Not every one that goes in red, And wears a feather in his head, Must strait 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 trang
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 trang
...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... | |
 | Aesop - 1869 - 308 trang
...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 trang
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 630 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...the other.' BOSWELL: ' Yet G'ibber was a man of observation?' JOHNBON : ' I think not.' EOSWELL : ' You will allow his Apology to be well done.' JOHNSON...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;... | |
| |
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. 
