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Quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
“'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
An Essay on Criticism, Part I, lines 9-10 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
The opening comparison of critics' judgments to watches.
Citation: "'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part I, lines 9-10 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id an-essay-on-criticism-q1)
