 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 - 1893 - 566 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize1. 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 comparM, his text peruse... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize1. 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 compar'd, his text peruse... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1893 - 390 pages
...you need." — Sheffield's Essay on Poetry. « " Be Homet'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." — Pope's Essay on Criticism. " And when... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, f 1 t d^L -M _^_ rr— 48 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. And trace the Muses upward to their... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 434 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. 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 compar'd, his text peruse,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. 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... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
.... Homer's God-like muse. GAY: To Bernard Lintott 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. r Still with itself compar'd. his text peruse... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 438 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. 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 compar'd, his text peruse,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1896 - 112 pages
...his Age : ) Cavil you may, but never criticize. Be Homer's works your study and delight, Eead 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 compar'd, his text peruse... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - English literature - 1902 - 510 pages
...When to repress and when indulge her flights. 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." This is a fair expression of Pope's artistic... | |
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