 Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3921845Full view - About this book
 | Barbara Seidlhofer - Foreign Language Study - 2003 - 366 pages
...(this time from Alexander Pope: he is talking about poetic inspiration, but the point is the same): Tis more to guide, than spur the muse's steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; (An Essay on Criticism, lines 84-5) The second point. You have (dear reader) been busy interpreting... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - Philosophy - 2005 - 316 pages
...surrounds the judicious scholar and witty poet in Alexander Pope's familiar aphorism: 'For wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife' (An Essay on Criticism, 1.82-3). In practice, wit and judgment often sue for divorce. But in theory,... | |
 | David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...foolish or manic hyperbole. Alexander Pope writes in his Essay on Criticism (1711), For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Before Pope, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690; Bk. 2, Ch. 12) contrasted judgment's... | |
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