 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,...  Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India - Página 127por David Lester Richardson - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 páginas
...breadth, or length appear : The whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a faultless picce 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...admiring eyes : 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 every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...eyes ; 50 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 every work regard the writer's end, 55 Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Eyes ; 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853 - 578 páginas
...fairer, and we have no doubt a truer, apology would be found in the admission of the indulgent axiom, Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be — which, applicable as it is to all works of art, is peculiarly so to that complicated class of architectural... | |
 | Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1911 - 544 páginas
...'11 readily afford, " My Tongue, my Pen, my Counsel, or my Sword." BUT, " Whoever thinks a perfect Piece to see — " Thinks what neer was, nor is, nor eer shall be" 1 this Province is in a deplorable Situation, none can justly deny. How it came to be in such dreadful... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - 1976 - 214 páginas
...indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus? Pope's variant in the Essay on Criticism is given by Steiner: 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 páginas
...» " Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call But the joint force and full result of all." # # » * " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." And again — " You then, whose judgment the right course would steer Know well each ancient's proper... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - 1983 - 248 páginas
...do. No one ever does what he is doing well enough to be exempt from all possibility of improvement. "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." Also there is always the problem of determining the comparative value of what is being done, relative... | |
 | Earnie Larsen - 1991 - 388 páginas
...well, let us own up to our buried anger. Hidden anger can kill me. I must recognize it and address it. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor shall be. — Alexander Pope Perfectionism is complex and subtle. Out loud, few of us would say, "Perfection... | |
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