...to himself. He examined lines ana words with minute, and punctilious observation, and retouched ewry part with indefatigable diligence, Till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For tins reason he kept his pieces very Jong in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. 4. His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true. His...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. ... It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness, elegance, or vigor. Pope had,...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. ... It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness, elegance, or vigor. Pope had,...

...candor, but dared the judgment, of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and v/ords with...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. 4. His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true. His...

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. 4. His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true. His...

...surpassed even Hume in unwearying industry of revision. ' He examined," says Johnson, ' lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. . . . His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true....

...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. "Of genius — that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and...

...no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and 30 punctilious observation, and retouched every part...to have been written with such regard to the times an might hasten their publiJOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE. 89 cation, were the two satires of Thirty-eight;...

...no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and 30 punctilious observation, and retouched every part...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. cation, were the two satires of Thirty-eight ; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to...