Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- DMI number:
- 2105
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Last Line:
- Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing and Critics / criticism
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- A little learning is a dangerous thing
- Last Line:
- New distant scenes of endless science rise
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks
- Last Line:
- Bursts out resistless with a thundering tide
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Let such teach others who themselves excel
- Last Line:
- But are not critics to their judgment too
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Tis not enough no harshness gives offence
- Last Line:
- Flies over the unbending corn and skims along the main
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed
- Last Line:
- True wit is everlasting like the sun
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms
- Last Line:
- To err is human to forgive divine
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T119421] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.85-107
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167515] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[??]-107
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Criticism.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167516] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.85-107
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Criticism.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems. [T121161] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.85-112
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism. By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [N21690]
- Page No(s):
- pp.36-63
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [T813]
- Page No(s):
- pp.73-104
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5778]
- Page No(s):
- pp.377-424
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5779] [vol I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-68
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5780] [vol I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-68
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition [Vol. 1] [T5782]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[65]-98
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition. [Vol. I] [ECCO] [T5781]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[65]-98
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Sixth Edition [vol. 1] [N1461] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[65]-98
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope (index)
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The works of Mr. Alexander Pope. To which are added, I. Coopers-Hill. By Sir John Denham. II. An Essay on Translated Verse... [ESTC T5394]
- Page No(s):
- p.49[i.e. 51]-75
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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