Comments on: True, That http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: caprice http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 caprice Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:03:47 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=936#comment-2905 I'm not so sure about that. :) I’m not so sure about that.

:)

]]> By: Katherine http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2903 Katherine Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:01:15 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=936#comment-2903 Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too. The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head, With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears, And always List'ning to Himself appears. All Books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales. With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Name a new Play, and he's the Poet's Friend, Nay show'd his Faults--but when wou'd Poets mend? No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard: Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. Distrustful Sense with modest Caution speaks; It still looks home, and short Excursions makes; But ratling Nonsense in full Vollies breaks; And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering Tyde! Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism Such shameless Bards we have; and yet ’tis true,
There are as mad, abandon’d Criticks too.
The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read,
With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head,
With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears,
And always List’ning to Himself appears.
All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,
From Dryden’s Fables down to Durfey’s Tales.
With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Name a new Play, and he’s the Poet’s Friend,
Nay show’d his Faults–but when wou’d Poets mend?
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr’d,
Nor is Paul’s Church more safe than Paul’s Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they’ll talk you dead;
For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Distrustful Sense with modest Caution speaks;
It still looks home, and short Excursions makes;
But ratling Nonsense in full Vollies breaks;
And never shock’d, and never turn’d aside,
Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering Tyde!

Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism

]]> By: Beauty http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2902 Beauty Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:40:50 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=936#comment-2902 Wow.. good one. Hmmm? Wow.. good one. Hmmm?

]]> By: Jude http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2901 Jude Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:56:57 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=936#comment-2901 He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. - Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

]]> By: LaSirenaBella http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/08/07/true-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2900 LaSirenaBella Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:16:48 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=936#comment-2900 Alas, so true. Alas, so true.

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