| John Milton - 1795 - 316 oldal
...e. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in those two celebrated lines, Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| 1803 - 412 oldal
...This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in those two celebrated lines : ' Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ;• He who would search for pearls, must dive below.' A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 oldal
...place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in those two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 oldal
...place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 712 oldal
...fault whose wit s so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all: Errors like straws Fops may have leave to level all they can, As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half wits are fleas... | |
| 1811 - 718 oldal
...fault whose wit s so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all: Errors like straws l ever framed, or my hand acted, But I could well have bid the world lo , Fops »my have leave to level all they can, As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half wits are... | |
| 1819 - 308 oldal
...place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 oldal
...criticism, to catch at these minor faults ; for, as Dryden happily expresses it, Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. It cannot, however, be inferred from these blemishes, that the passages in which they are found are... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 oldal
...place. This Mr. Drjden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 oldal
...place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellences than imperfections, to discover the concealed... | |
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