First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and... Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime - Page 40by Longinus - 1800 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
| Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...world is the judgment of the work produced and complete, and exposed for free censure. "First fathom nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same." This general reference to the fountainhead of law and of power, is spoken to the critic — the writer... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...them more : Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her...the same : Unerring nature, still divinely bright, 70 One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once... | |
| Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1846 - 584 pages
...incessant practice, familiarize himself to every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony. S. JOHNSON. XIV. First follow nature and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the came : Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force,... | |
| George Crabb - English language - 1846 - 548 pages
...«¡gnificntlon ; Unerring nature, etill divinely bright, One clear, uiichang'd and universal light, Life, forre, and beauty, must to all impart At once, the source, and end, and test of every art. POPK. Яепге tin« word ¡я под) In the legal pen?e fnr the froof which u man is... | |
| John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...produced and complete, and exposed for free censure. Now, lend us your ears. Pray, attend. "First fathom nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same." This general reference to the fountain-head of law and of power, is spoken to the critic—the writer... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Nature hath nothing made so base, but can Read some instruction to the wisest man. PRIOR. Al.KVV 3. First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her...impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 4. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks thro' nature up... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...more : 65 Each might his sev'ral province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : COMMENTARY. Ver. 68. First follow Nature, $c.] The Critic observing the directions before given,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...them more : Each might his several province well command, Would all hut stoop to what they understand. First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her...is still the same : Unerring nature, still divinely hright, 70 One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and heauty, must to all impart,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...them more : Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once...that fund each just supply provides ; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus the informing soul With spirits feeds, with... | |
| Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 pages
...look for elegance, perhaps even for grammatical precision, would be useless; we never intended it. First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her...light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart; I At once the source, and end, and test of art. 2 Art, from that fund, each just supply provides :... | |
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