162 CRITICISM-STYLE-TASTE. 3. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. 4. For when we risk no contradiction, 5. Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything, or doubt of all. GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. POPE'S Essay on Man. 6. A daring infidel, (and such there are, Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. Your noblest natures are most credulous. 8. Security's blind nurse, the dream of fools, CHAPMAN. No; as soon 9. And shall we own such judgment? MASON. 1. Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say! Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. CHURCHILL. 2. Critics to plays for the same end resort That surgeons wait on trials in a court: 3. On me, when dunces are satiric, CONGREVE. DEAN SWIFt. 4. Hot, noisy, envious, proud, the scribbling fry Burn, hiss and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. 5. Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely, who have written well. YOUNG. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 6. Some have at first for wits, then poets pass'd; POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 7. A perfect judge will read each work of wit 8. Neglect the rule each verbal critic lays, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 9. Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And curious thoughts struck out at ev'ry line- POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 10. Others for language all their care express, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as soon as of a mind. POPE'S Imitations. 13. Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, 14. A man must serve his time at ev'ry trade, COWPER. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 15. Applauds to-day what yesterday he curst, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. CRITICS. (See CRITICISM.) From every drachm of mercy. 2. CRUELTY-TORTURE. 1. A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Incapable of pity, void and empty The poor beetle, that we tread upon, SHAKSPEARE. In corporal suffering feels a pang as great SHAKSPEARE. 3. Do not insult calamity; It is a barbarous grossness to lay on The weight of scorn, where heavy misery 4. Thou shalt behold him stretch'd in all the agonies 5. DANIEL. OTWAY'S Venice Preserved. Bring forth the rack: Fetch hither cords, and knives, and sulphurous flames; He shall be bound and gash'd, his skin fleec'd, burnt alive; NAT. LEE. 6. Wire-draw his skin, spin all his nerves like hair, And work his tortur'd flesh as thin as flame. 7. I reverence the coachman who cries "Gee," Or view a butcher, with horn-handled knife, NAT. LEE. Rejected Addresses. 166 CRUELTY - TORTURE. 8. The savage brute, that haunts in woods remote, And deserts wild, tears not the fearful traveller, If hunger, or some injury, provoke not. 9. Oh! rather fail this ardent breath, And palsied sink this hand in death, Rowe. MRS. HOLFORD's Margaret of Anjou. 10. His was the sternest, hardest breast That ever burnish'd cuirass press'd. MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou. 11. Thy suing to these men were as the bleating Of the lamb to the butcher, or the cry Of seamen to the surge. 12. 13. BYRON'S Marino Faliero. And ponder still BYRON'S Corsair. On pangs that longest rack, and latest kill. A saint had cried out, Even with the crown of glory in his eyes, As was forc'd on him. BYRON'S Two Foscari. 14. Nurtur'd in blood betimes, his heart delights In vengeance gloating on another's pain. 15. Humanity is policy in war, BYRON'S Childe Harold. And cruelty's a prodigal, that heaps DAWES' Athenia of Damascus. |