 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...seem, &c. Allowable rhymes, dame, lame, limb, him, them, hem, lamb, dam, &c. See AME. " Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem, To copy nature is to copy them." — POPE. EAN. Bean, clean, dean, glean, lean, mean, wean, yean, demean, unclean. Perfect rhymes, convene,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...as strict his laboured work confine, 135 As if the Stagyrite3 o'er looked each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature, is to copy them. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. 140 Music resembles... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...and reject the ancient thoughts of humanity ; they said, rather, with our poet,— " Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them." And here one might take occasion to suggest, if it could be done now without offending, that it the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...checks the bold design, And rules as strict his laboured work confine As if the Stagyrite o'erlooked each line. Learn hence from ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...But when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design, And rules as strict his labour'd work confine, As if the Stagyrite1 o'erlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...But when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design, And rules as strict his labour'd work confine, As if the Stagyrite1 o'erlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...draw ; But when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks the bold design, And rules as strict his labour'd work confine As if the Stagyrite o'erlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy Nature is to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...Homer were, he found, the same. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design : And rtues as striet se soft refreshing streams Sleek the smooth skin, and scent the snowy limbs. Now for aneient rules a just estcem ; To copy nature is to copy them. Some beauties yet no precepts can... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English language - 1859 - 380 pages
...rules as strict his laboured work confine, As if the Stagyrite o'erlooked each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them. (21.) Genius. In this relation the word Genius has often been associated with Taste ; and its meaning... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1859 - 720 pages
...rhymes, dame, lame, &c. litn.tI, him, &c., them, hem, &c., lamb, dam, &c. See AME. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem, To copy nature is to copy them. — PoPE. EAN. Bean, elean, dean, glean, lean, mean, wean, gean, demean, uneleaa. Perfect rhymes, convene,... | |
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Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinc'd, amaz'd, he checks the bold design; And rules as strict his labour'd work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy nature is to copy them. 
