 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 - 1778 - 410 pages
...delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; \ii Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring....perufe ; Or let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When firft young Maro fung of Kings and wars, E'er warning Phoebus touch'd his trembling ears, 131... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...delight, Read them .by day, and meditate by night; 1z5 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 M ufe. When VARIATIONS. Ver. 116. Ed. i. Thefe loft, &c. Ver.... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...before your eyes Cavil you may, but never criticife. Be Homer's works your ftudy and delight, Kead them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring, Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but. never criticize. Be Homer's works your fludy and delight, Read them by day and meditate by night. Thence form .your judgment,...trace' the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfe'f.compar'd, his text perufe ; Or let your comment be the Mantuan mufe. * When firil young Maro7... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...and delight; Read them by day, and meditate by niglit : Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims 1- pciufc; Or let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. ' When firftyoungMaro in his boundlcfs mindj, A work... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...your eves, Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be Homer's works your liudy and delight 5 Read them by day, and meditate by night : Thence form your judgment, thence your max' ims bring, Aud trace die Mules upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd his text perufc... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, hut 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 \itufes upward to their (bring, atill with itfelf compar d his text perufc... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 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 ; 128 And let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When VARIATIONS. VER. 123. Cavil you may, but never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 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 ; 128 And let your comment be the Mantuan Mufe. When VARIATIONS. VER. 123. Cavil you may, but never... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; 125 i Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe ; 128 And let your comment be the Mantuan jyiufe. When VARIATIONS. VER. 123. Cavil you may, but never... | |
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