...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...bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, 1 An envions poetaster, an enemy of the poet Horace. Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, 70...

...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...Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, — At once the source,...

...thoughts and adopt similar illustrations, when describing human character and human passions : — Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear,...and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. They certainly may abate something of our confidence in the assertion of...

...them more : Each might his sev'ral province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Unerring nature ! still divinely bright, One clear,...and beauty, must to all impart At once the source, and end, and test, of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides Works without show, and without...

...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...and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, the test of Art. Those rules of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature...

...earlier revolt against stilted complexity and laboured wit: First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same;...and beauty must to all impart At once the source, and end, and test of art.37 Moreover Pope, too, is aware of a historical dimension to his rediscovery...

...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...Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and Universal Light, Life, Force, and Beauty, must to all impart, At once the Source, and...

...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'...

...1711), with implications that are obvious for poets as well: First, follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same:...and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. The "still" confers permanence, a rootedness to regulate whatever humanly...

...critics next, and proved plain fools at last. (Fr. I) 24 So vast is art, so narrow human wit. (Fr. I) 25 w one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees! — (1. 3—6) 6 and end, and test of art. (Fr. I) 26 For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's...