...scorns to quarrel once a day, Like Hectors, in at every party-fray. Let those find fault whose wit s so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all: Errors like straws upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below Fops may...

...scorns to quarrel once a day, Like Hectors, in at every party-fray. Let those find fault whose wit s their actions. Lath. Such let them be of mine ; there's not a p Errors like straws upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below , Fops »my...

...the right place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

...the right place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellences than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

...dignity of true criticism, to catch at these minor faults ; for, as Dryden happily expresses it, Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. It cannot, however, be inferred from these blemishes, that the passages in which they are found are...

...the right place. This Mr. Drjden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

...the right place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked in these two celebrated lines: 'Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow-, He who would search for pearls must dive below.' A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

...in the right place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked, in those celebrated lines: " Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below." .Iddison. MLXtl. In fancied scenes, as in life's real plan, He could not, for a moment, sink the man,...

...in the right place. This Mr. Dryden has very agreeably remarked, in those celebrated lines: " Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below." Jlddison. MLXn. In fancied scenes, as in life's real plan, He could not, for a moment, sink the man,...

...stain mankind : of fools, who had forgotten, (if ever, indeftd, they had been taught) that ** Errors like straws upon the surface flow : He who would search for pearls must dive below." and that, therefore, to criticise with dogmatic flippancy, or unmerited acerbity, was not to perform...