...ships deduced from it ? xvn. MK. ADAMS'S system is that of Pope, in his Essay on Criticism : — " First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same." This rule, surely, cannot " arrest our efforts or appall our hopes." Study government as you build...

...similar elgnificauon ; Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd and universal litrht, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart At once the source, and end, and te» t of every art. POPE. Hence thle word Is used In the leva! sense for the proof which a man Is...

...Cattle juicy clover. Shout, ye valleys, and yo hills, — I'on THE UHOUOUT is OVER ! NATURE AND ART. FIRST follow NATURE, and your judgment frame By her...impart, — At once the source, and end, and test of An. ART from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides. In...

...more : Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. 65 First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her...Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, 1 An envions poetaster, an enemy of the poet Horace. Life, force, and...

...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...Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and...

...human character and human passions : — Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must...impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. They certainly may abate something of our confidence in the assertion of DIGUES (that "wit of the town...

...thinking takes place against this background of nature. This view was neatly expressed by Alexander Pope: First follow nature and your judgment frame By her...Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and...

...earlier revolt against stilted complexity and laboured wit: First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same;...Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart At once the source, and...

...tested. Nature is an immutable standard: poetry imitates nature, that is, the universal order of things: First follow NATURE, and your Judgment frame By her...impart, At once the Source, and End, and Test of Art. (H. 68-73) Conveniently, as Rapin and others had pointed out, the principles of that natural order...

...This hierarchy had remained fundamentally unchanged in the eighteenth century. Pope's famous lines, 'First follow Nature, and your judgment frame / By her just standard, which is still the same,'16 still formulated an ontological as well as an aesthetic norm, albeit in a rationalized, 'enlightened'...