...poetry with one, is not with another. All depends upon our diversified opinions ; for "Tis with onr judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." If we look into the sacred Book of inspiration, we shall find a model of poetry in all its richness,...

...which is the true, and which the false, we are often at a loss to determine : as the poet has said, "Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. — POPE. ' With regard to our external senses, this diversity of feeling, as far as it occurs, is...

...aged I have often heard complain of their memories, but seldom of their judgments. " "Ti« with nor judgments as our watches — none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." I said just now, that the memory sometimes is Warned wrongfully; and truth would bear me out, were...

...who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments, as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 10 COMMENTARY. But readers have been misled by the modesty of the Title, which only promises an Art...

...who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments, as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 10 COMMENTARY. But readers have been misled by the modesty of the Title, which only promises an Art...

...writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tie d, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from...

...him, as they do to their watches, to be told how time goes, as the poet says, " Tis with our judgement as our " watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his " own." Now these disputes about heaven and the way, among the wise and learned, may be well settled by that...

...who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In poets as true genins is but rare, True taste as seldom i*s the critic's share ; Both must alike...

...Hence a pause" is often proper in poetry, where it would be omitted in prose as unnecessary : EXAMPLE. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Here a slight pause is admissible at none, since such a pause does not interfere with the sense. Where,...

...their science, there would be less reason for just censure of their works than at present exists. " Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." POPE. I have great pleasure in congratulating those who take an interest in the subject, upon the important...