...if our elders break all reason's laws, Those fools demand, not pardon, but applause. POPE. Let those teach others who themselves excel; And censure freely, who have written well. POPE. I know there are to whose presumptuous thoughts Those freer beauties, ev'n in them, seem faults....

...637. CRITICS. MANY knotty points there are, Which all discuss, but few can clear. — Prior. Let those dness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by He Pope. Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure the best, Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest....

...Pope appears to have considered the censorial authority as their exclusive prerogative: 1' Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well." * That the maxim is founded in good sense, as long as the artist confines himself to general critical...

...if our elders break all reason's laws. Those fools demand, not pardon, but applause. POPE. Let those teach others who themselves excel ; And censure freely, who have written well. POPE. I know there are to whose presumptuous thoughts Those freer beauties, ev'n in them, seem faults....

...must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. IS Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too? Yet if we look...

...just or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. Ibid, CRITICISM, CRITICS — continued. Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely, who have written well. I'"pe, EC 15. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest...

...must alike from Heav'n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Some, to whom Heav'n in wit has been profuse, Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and...

...must alike from Heav'n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Some, to whom Heav'n in wit has been profuse, Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and...

...fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 925" Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 89 Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely, who have written well. 926 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. 1. Line 15 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without...

...Paradise Lost " he would have ranked among the minor poets. If Pope's words be true — " Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well, " — then JOHNSON assuredly had a right to exercise his censorial powers on poetical merit. Says Boswell...