What blessings thy free bounty gives For God is paid when Man receives : Yet not to Earth's contracted span Or think thee Lord alone of Man, 20 If I am wrong, oh! teach my heart Mean tho' I am, not wholly so, Since quicken'd by thy breath; Thro' this day's life or death! This day be bread and peace my lot; 45 All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, To Thee, whose temple is all space, 50 INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public, ver. 1. That a true taste is as rare to be found as a true genius, v. 9. 18. That most men are born with some taste, but spoiled by false education, v. 19. 25. The multitude of critics, and causes of them, v. 26. 45. That we are to study our own taste, and know the limits of it, v. 46. 67. Nature the best guide of judgment, v. 68. 87; improved by art and rules, which are but methodized Nature, v. 88. Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets, v. 88. 110; that therefore the ancients are necessary to be studied by a critic, particularly Homer and Virgil, v. 118. 138. Of licenses, and the use of them, by the |