CRITICISM.
And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black;—nor white so very white.
New Morality. A. CANNING.
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. II. A. POPE.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica.
E. WALLER.
Vex not thou the poet's mind
With thy shallow wit:
Vex not thou the poet's mind:
For thou canst not fathom it.
The Poet's Mind. A. TENNYSON.