 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. Still with itself compared, his text peruse ; And let your comment be the...  Poems on Several Occasions - Page 42by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...Cavil you may, but never criticise. ::;._-, • Be Homer's works your ftudy, ;and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night, • • Thence form...judgment, thence your notions bring, And trace the Mufts upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe ; And let your comment be... | |
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be Homer's works your ftudy and delight, /2j Read them by day, and meditate by night, Thence form your judgment, thence your notions And trace the mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe; And let your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...modern Rules c .Who for all ages writ, and oilman, Be Homer's works your ftudy, and delight, Kcad them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxima bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. &>ill. with itfelf compar'd,. his text perufe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 396 pages
...and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; i Thence form your judgment, thence your max: bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe; And let your comment be the Mantuan Muf When firft young Maro in his boundlefs n A work t'outlaft immortal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; iz5 Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe ; And let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. VARIATIONS. VER. 123. Cavil you may, but never eriticize.]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; 125 Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe ; And let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When firft young Maro in his boundlefs mind A work t' outlaft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; 125 Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe ; And let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When firft young Maro in his boundlefs mind A work t' outlaft... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be HOMER'S works your ftudy, and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the mufcs upward to their fpring. K j. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 292 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be HOMER'S works your ftudy, and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment,' thence your maxims bring, And trace the mulls upward to their fpring, K. 3 Still with itfelf compar'd, his text... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...delight, Rend them by day, and meditate by night; 125 Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compai'd, his text perufe; And Iet your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When fir.it young Maro in hit... | |
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