 | Epes Sargent - 1871 - 336 pągines
...more directly. Thus, in the following couplet from Pope, there is an example of emphasis : " 'T is hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill." Here the words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are, therefore, the emphatical words.... | |
 | 1874
...servant." " Nay, you deceive me." 3. Correct the following sentences, and account for the correction : " 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill." " He would have assisted one of his friends if he could do it without injuring another." " Though a... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 454 pągines
...constitute a fair specimen of Pope's delicate skill in the management of this his favorite metre : — " 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging, 111 ; But of the two, less dangerous Is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1874
...importance more directly. Thus, in the following couplet from Pope, there is an example of emphasis: " "Pis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill." Here the words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are, therefore, the emphatical words.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 772 pągines
...n8 119 Now they who reach Parnassus' lofty crown Employ their pains to spurn some others down. POPE. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. POPE. To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake. POPE.... | |
 | Sir James Ranken Fergusson (2d bart.) - 1876 - 228 pągines
...must strive to find what comfort I may in the reflection, that perhaps they could not be made worse. " 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill." Being perhaps in Scylla, I should use all efforts to avoid Charybdis, by refraining from giving any... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876
...with the principal sentence by if, the Verb in the subordinate sentence is often Jn the subjunctive : 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. — Pope. 0 say me true if thou wert mortal wight, And why from us so quickly thou didst take thy flight.... | |
 | 1877
...gedanken entgegenzutreten, wo dieser eine solche rolle spielt, auf den findet' Popes wort anwendung: "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But of the two, less dang'rous is th' offense To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. BREsLAU, MAERZ 1877. F. Bobertag.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 pągines
...; 119 Now they who reach Parnassus' lofty crown Employ their pains to spurn some others down. POPE. Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. POPE. To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake. POPE.... | |
 | Fannie Isabel Sherrick - 1879 - 152 pągines
...fiyron. "Love's holy flame forever burneth ; From heaven it came, to heaven relurneth. " — Southey. "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. — 1'ope. ST. LOUIS: WS BRYAN, PURI.ISHER, Copyrighted, 1879, by FANNIE ISABKI.IE SHERRICK. TO MY... | |
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Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th... 
