 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
 | Bruno Radtke - 1926 - 132 pages
...wir dann auch in Pope's E. o. C. die Verse : „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 upwards to he\r spring. Still with itself compar' d, bis text peruse... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them . maxims bring, 126 And trace the Muses upward to their spring. Still with itself compared, his text... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 618 pages
...How to doit ? Pope's prescription was very simple: 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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. 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... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...clearest the role they both played in that invention: 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 It self compar'd, his Text peruse;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticize. 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;... | |
 | Bruce Mills - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 225 pages
...as he would underscore not many lines later, "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."1 It is not that Pope fails to discern... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - English language - 1959 - 358 pages
...source, and end, and test of art. (Study the Ancients) 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. 10 Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem;... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 pages
...Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. * * Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxima bring, And trace the muses upward to their spring. Still with itself compared, his text peruse... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...but never eriticize. . . . * .: «... i ...:\. A Be Homer's works your fludy and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night ; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims brinr, And trace the mufes upward to their fpring. Still with itfelf compar'd, his text perufe... | |
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