 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
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...in the second line it is used, in the ancient sense, For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more...steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. /... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...in the second line it is used, in the ancient sense, For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more...steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Those... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Aesthetics - 1823 - 438 pages
...warranted in the same conclusion by Pope himself, when he says, — 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muses' steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed. The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Virgil, then, though he does not... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1823 - 472 pages
...judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each ether's aid, tike man and wife 4 'Tis more to «uide, than spur the muse's steed : Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed : 5 The winged courser, tike a gen'rous horse, Shows most true mettte, when you check its course. 6... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...much more, to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each others )/ moat true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old discover'd, not devis'd, Are nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...profuse, Want as much more, to turn it to its use." For For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more...Muse's steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Those... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...profuse, Want as much more, to turn it to its use." For For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more...steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Those... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...For For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. "Pis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed ; 85 The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Those... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Want as mueh more, to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant eaeh eourser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you eheek his eourse. Those rules of old... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, 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 Muses' steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse,... | |
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