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" And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 596
edited by - 1873
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense which only is the gift of heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Pope, MS n.4S. 'Tis hard, where dulness overrules, To keep good sense in crowds of fools. Sic^ Of plain...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste ; — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones* and Le NStret have it not to give. To build,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
....Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense: Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven And though no science, fairly worth the seven: A light, which in yourself you must perceive: Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. To build, to...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Epistle iii. Line 285. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Epistle iv. Line 43. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.*...
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Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer, Volume 2

William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...Chasles, nor perhaps any mere mathematician, to interpret a series of statistics. What is wanted is " Good sense which only is the gift of heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven." At the same time, I am far from meaning that men engaged in affairs generally possess the necessary...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

1839 - 618 pages
...Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to taste — 'tis Sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven." THE celebrity which Mr. Assheton Smith has acquired as a Master of Hounds made me very desirous, for...
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Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer, Volume 2

William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...Chasles, nor perhaps any mere mathematician, to interpret a series of statistics. What is wanted is " Good sense which only is the gift of heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven." At the same time, I am far from meaning that men engaged in affairs generally possess the necessary...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...Designs of the Baths, Arches, Theatres, &c., of Ancient Rome ; " and was an Essay on the text — " Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven," Founded as it was on the speculative principles he had adopted from Bolingbroke, Pope imagined that...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. ployed by...
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Aspects of Authorship: Or, Book Marks and Book Makers

Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...sense be united with it : o>? ovSev rj /jMOr)<rt,v> dv /Mr; z/ow Trapfj. So Pope, in his homage to " Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, worth the other seven." In more than one page of his treatise Locke recog* "Value the judicious, and...
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