...230 The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : 315 Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps an Alps arise. Johnson lavishes panegyric on this simile, as...

...230 The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyesj Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its anther writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms...

...HilU peep o'er hilb, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the tame wo. He is often mistaken in so Whcrc.naturc moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous...

...not enough your counsels still be true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do." POPB. " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit as the author writ." IBID. There are persons whose tout ensemble strikes the beholder with ideas so...

...prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge1 chambermaid ; Awkward and supple, Where nature moves,and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The generous...

...of their performance. Bearing in mind another distich of the same sage poetj who recommends us to ' Read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ.' — • a piece of advice not less applicable to works like the present, than to those directly alluded...

...of their performance. Bearing in mind another distich of the same sage poet t who recommends us to ' Read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ.'— Such being the author's purpose, the book before us is rather a continuous abstract from a series of...

...achieved, but that does not affect the justice of our remark. We may be reminded, that Pope has said, "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ;" Or again — " In every work regard the author's end, Since none can compass more than they intend."...

...: " Your Lordship will therefore, I hope, look more frequently for the translator than the poet : " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ." I have for the most part followed the text of Gesner, and in many of the obscure passages I have consulted...

...: " Your Lordship will therefore, I hope, look more frequently for the translator than the poet : " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ." I have for the most part followed the text of Gesner, and in many of the obscure passages I have consulted...