Nitpicking is part of discovering better ways?

"Let those find fault whose wit's so very small,
They've need to show that they can think at all;

Your added two first lines to me seem easily separable from the last two lines. Almost like two different quotes. In the first two lines Dryden himself is a fault finder with those who find fault. (those who find fault are not always people who have 'wit so very small'.)

Many things have been developped by some people finding fault or errors. When I see the four lines I think I would need an even larger context to understand Dryden's point.



Last edited by BranShea; 03/13/12 08:43 AM.