 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night .... Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy Nature is to' copy them. 297. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ;... | |
 | Charles Witcomb - English language - 1884 - 180 pages
...rules as strict his laboured work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them. POPE, Essag on Criticism,' STANZAS There is in the heroic measure a stanza of three verses, if it may... | |
 | Wilhelm Lübke - Architecture - 1885 - 930 pages
...Verhältnißlehrer übermitteln wollte, indem er fich zugleich auf Pope's Ausfpruch ftützte : „Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem, to copy nature is to copy them." Selbft noch ein Menfchenleben fpäter in „The architectural Remembrance" (London 1751) vertheidigte... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...rules as strict his laboured work confine,1 As if the Stagyrite' o'erlooked each line.3 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. Music resembles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...whose conception of Nature had survived the decay of language, empire, and religion : " Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy Nature is to copy them." The effect of the ' Essay on Criticism,' or at least of the current of thought which it represents,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...when to examine every part be came, Nature and Homer -were, he found, the same. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design: And rules as strict his...if the Stagirite o'erlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy nature is to copy them. Some beauties yet no precepts can... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...rules methodize Nature, and Homer and Virgil show how Nature can best be followed: Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy Nature is to copy them. There are, however, graces beyond the reach of art which only the "great wit" can achieve: Great wits... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...'Some 5' "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'orlook'd each line. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem; To copy Nature is to copy... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...same; if a modern poet properly considered the matter he would make the same discovery: Learn hence for Ancient Rules a just Esteem; To copy Nature is to copy Them. (l1. 139-40) This said, Pope agrees with Rapin and the rest that there is a nameless grace, not attainable... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...herself ordained. (Fr. I) 28 Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. (Fr. I) 29 Learn hence for 1-4) To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent 66 (Fr. I) 30 Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. From vulgar... | |
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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. 
