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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:44 am
Post subject: Re: To err is human... |
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Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | But it _was_ poetic. My point is that Pope actually wrote
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Have you got an edition of his works?
| Quote: | "To err is human, to forgive, divine", as Matti almost said above.
(I, too, was in error, since I misremembered that he'd used a
semi-colon for the first break.)
With no second "is", the comma is indispensable. With a second "is",
it would no longer be a regular line of a heroic couplet.
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As I posted elsethread, two dictionaries of quotations give only one
comma: "To err is human, to forgive divine."
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before "divine."
So we have a split decision.
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Best -- Donna Richoux |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:41 am
Post subject: Re: To err is human... |
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Donna Richoux wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
But it _was_ poetic. My point is that Pope actually wrote
Have you got an edition of his works?
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Of course I have. You mean you haven't?
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"To err is human, to forgive, divine", as Matti almost said above.
(I, too, was in error, since I misremembered that he'd used a
semi-colon for the first break.)
With no second "is", the comma is indispensable. With a second
"is",
it would no longer be a regular line of a heroic couplet.
As I posted elsethread, two dictionaries of quotations give only
one
comma: "To err is human, to forgive divine."
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before
"divine." So we have a split decision.
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Quit stalling. I'm right, and even that vulgar publication _The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ appears to agree with me. How the
Hell else could it be punctuated? (Semi-colons and colons apart.)
Mike. |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:04 am
Post subject: Re: To err is human... |
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Donna Richoux wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
But it _was_ poetic. My point is that Pope actually wrote
Have you got an edition of his works?
Of course I have. You mean you haven't?
"To err is human, to forgive, divine", as Matti almost said above.
(I, too, was in error, since I misremembered that he'd used a
semi-colon for the first break.)
With no second "is", the comma is indispensable. With a second "is",
it would no longer be a regular line of a heroic couplet.
As I posted elsethread, two dictionaries of quotations give only one
comma: "To err is human, to forgive divine."
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before
"divine." So we have a split decision.
Quit stalling. I'm right, and even that vulgar publication _The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ appears to agree with me. How the
Hell else could it be punctuated? (Semi-colons and colons apart.)
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It may have been mentioned already, but in Bartlett's Quotations there is
only the one comma -- the one after "human".
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:08 am
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:04:25 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net>
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| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
Donna Richoux wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
But it _was_ poetic. My point is that Pope actually wrote
Have you got an edition of his works?
Of course I have. You mean you haven't?
"To err is human, to forgive, divine", as Matti almost said above.
(I, too, was in error, since I misremembered that he'd used a
semi-colon for the first break.)
With no second "is", the comma is indispensable. With a second "is",
it would no longer be a regular line of a heroic couplet.
As I posted elsethread, two dictionaries of quotations give only one
comma: "To err is human, to forgive divine."
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before
"divine." So we have a split decision.
Quit stalling. I'm right, and even that vulgar publication _The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ appears to agree with me. How the
Hell else could it be punctuated? (Semi-colons and colons apart.)
It may have been mentioned already, but in Bartlett's Quotations there is
only the one comma -- the one after "human".
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My copy of the Essay on Criticism has
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
That's the way Truly would have it too, I'm sure. |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:10 pm
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:41:53 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Donna Richoux wrote:
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before
"divine." So we have a split decision.
Quit stalling. I'm right, and even that vulgar publication _The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ appears to agree with me. How the
Hell else could it be punctuated? (Semi-colons and colons apart.)
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I had to get rid of most of my books when I made this little diversion
to the land of shopping centers, The ODOQ being one of them. Which
compilation do you recommend? I'll be gradually stocking up after I
get a flat in Wexford. Is Bartlett's better, anyone? I used to have a
copy of it too, but too long ago for me to remember what it is like.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:44 pm
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Charles Riggs wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:41:53 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Donna Richoux wrote:
Let me haul out the print version of the Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations... Ha, they list it *your* way, with a comma before
"divine." So we have a split decision.
Quit stalling. I'm right, and even that vulgar publication _The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ appears to agree with me. How the
Hell else could it be punctuated? (Semi-colons and colons apart.)
I had to get rid of most of my books when I made this little
diversion
to the land of shopping centers, The ODOQ being one of them. Which
compilation do you recommend? I'll be gradually stocking up after I
get a flat in Wexford. Is Bartlett's better, anyone? I used to have
a
copy of it too, but too long ago for me to remember what it is
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I was jesting about ODQ's "vulgarity", as some of my teachers
maintained that dictionaries of quotations were distinctly infra dig.
(since we weren't allowed English-Latin or English-Greek
dictionaries, either, you may be able to guess the general
atmosphere). I'd actually hate to be without mine (I have the 1980
edition). I don't know about the others: probably best to spend a
good long time comparing them in the library or the bookshop.
Mike. |
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