 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pages
...very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, [that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turnTJ It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...ADDISON : Spectator, No. 1 66. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very learned, languages, and pique themselves upon their skill i line writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 550 pages
...has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...convinced of their troth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so A cry well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1896 - 112 pages
...constructions. With these remarks of Pope compare Addison : " Wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the later ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 410 pages
...finished epigrammatic couplets of the critic of twenty, that ' Wit and fine Writing doth not consist so much in Advancing Things that are new, as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn.' What, for instance, could be neater or more skilful than the way in which these verges (some of which... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 314 pages
...convinced of their Truth and Solidity. And here give me Leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that Wit and fine Writing doth not con/ sist so much in advancing Things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...(after Boileau) in the review of the £ssav on Criticism, 'that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so N T P S4Q — in other words, it is concerned less with the revelation of the unattempted or the unimagined in... | |
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And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. 
