 | Henry Merritt - 1879 - 358 pages
...those who judge lightly of the character and works of an old painter : — ' Religion, country, genius of his age — Without all these at once before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise.' The pedantic condemn pictures for such anachronisms as that of the painter having put fire-arms into... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...each Ancient's proper character; His fable, 3 subject, scope, in every page; Religion, country, genius of his age: Without all these at once before your...criticise. Be Homer's works your study and delight: Head them by day and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your notions bring, And trace... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...9. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches — none Go just alike — yet each believes his own. 124. Be 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... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...the masterpieces of Homer and Virgil to the student in his "Essay on Criticism":— " Be Homer's work your study and delight ; Read them by day, and meditate...by night ; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxima bring And trace the Muses upwards to their spring : Still with itself compared, his text peruse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1883 - 624 pages
...ancient's proper character : His fable, subject, scope, in every page ; Religion, country, genius of bis age : Without all these at once before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...each ancient's proper character: His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, country, genius of his age: Without all these at once before your...works your study and delight, Read them by day and contemplate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Muses upward... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pages
...each ANCIENT'S proper Character, His Fable, Subject, Scope in ev'ry Page, Religion, Country, Genius of his Age: Without all these at once before your Eyes, Cavil you may, but never Criticize . . . are opinions Pope had inherited through his traditional literary education. His view... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...each ancient's proper character ; His fable, subject, scope in every page Religion, country, genius of his age. Without all these at once before your eyes Cavil you may — but never criticise. A strict adherence to the advice here given, would, I think, well nigh put a stop to all criticism.... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pages
...each ANCIENT'S proper Character, His Fable, Subject, Scope in ev'ry Page, Religion, Country, Genius of his Age: Without all these at once before your Eyes, Cavil you may, but never Criticize, (i 18-123) Here the critic, and as the poem goes on to demonstrate, any poet who follows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...ANCIENT'S proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; 120 Religion, country, genius of his age: Without all these at once before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be Homer's works your study, and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; Thence... | |
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Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Muses upward to their spring. 
