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" Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes;... "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq - Page 65
by William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745
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Unity in Diversity Revisited?: British Literature and Culture in the 1990s

Barbara Korte, Klaus Peter Müller - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 280 pages
...wholeness in aesthetic judgement: In Wit, as Nature, what affects our Hearts / Is not th' Exactness of peculiar Parts; / 'Tis not a Lip, or Eye, we Beauty call, / But the joint Force and full Result of all. I Thus when we view some well-proportion'd Dome, / ... / No single Parts unequally surprize,...
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Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

Emerson R. Marks - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 428 pages
...in the neoclassical notion of artistic unity epitomized in a couplet of Pope's Essay on Criticism: 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. To this the organicist critic retorts that in fact \ve do call the lip or eye individually...
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Samuel Johnson's "general Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth ...

Scott D. Evans - Philosophy of nature - 1999 - 180 pages
...Pope's Essay. In Wit, as Nature, what affects our Hearts Is not th'Exactness of peculiar parts; "Pis not a Lip, or Eye, we Beauty call, But the joint Force and full Result of all. (11. 243-46) Inferior poets represent nature in terms of "single parts," but the genuine...
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Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review

David Ricks, Michael Silk - Greece - 2000 - 172 pages
...sacrifice a distracting extraneous metaphor is a demonstration of that greatest art. the art of blotting. 'Tis not a Lip or Eye we beauty call. / But the joint force and full Result of AI/.' "' But the most general and important linguistic technique. which reveals most clearly...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...accidental aptronymic: the scale ranges from calm to hurricane, and beau means fair, fort means powerful. Tis not a lip or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. —Pope, Kssay in Criticism deuk: lead. L ducere, ductum. ducal, duke, duchess, duchy,...
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Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis

Grant Ian Thrall - Science - 2002 - 274 pages
...blame indeed — but we may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some wellproportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine,...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Life

Georgene Muller Lockwood - Self-Help - 2002 - 460 pages
...out is health, and there's no substitute for that, either. You know the drill. If you drink plenty of "'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and result of it —Alexander Pope water, eat a balanced diet, and get adequate rest and regular exercise,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

Christopher Fox - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 306 pages
...single, all-encompassing structure of truth, beauty, and (not least) power. Hence Pope's assertion that "Tis not a Lip, or Eye, we Beauty call, / But the joint Force and full Result of all" (Essay on Criticism, lines 245-46); and hence also his paean to the British empire at...
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Big Book of Essays

Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 506 pages
...enough if we come out into the open. "In wit as in nature, what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts 'Tis not a lip or eye, we beauty call But the joint force and full result of all" The smoking chimney can affect the sensitive heart. A well maintained park, a neatly...
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Object of Virtue: A Novel

Nicholas B.A. Nicholson - Fiction - 2004 - 301 pages
...MARTYR (1864-1918) "In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts, Is not th' exactness of peculiar pans; 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force, and full result of all. . . . . . Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor...
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