...I could, and have shown also in one or two cases Johnson's own opinions subsequently expressed. 3 " First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same." —Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 68. 3 " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er...

...is to be found in the best works of the ancients. I shall consider these principles in turn. " (1.) First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same. Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and...

...be found in tbe best works of the ancients. I shall consider these principles in turn. " (1.) Firet follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same. Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and...

...ordinary sense in which we use it to define a bright and sparkling expression, or humorous repartee. " First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged and universal light, Life, force and...

...imitation in both life and art, and it can also mean simply the normal. So when Pope goes on to say First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same, he is referring to an ideal implicit in the way the world goes on. Nature is At once the source, and...

...conclude this Paper with Mr. POPE'8 Lines, which may be equally instructive to the Poet and the Player: First follow Nature, and your Judgment frame By her Just Standard, which is still the same. Unereing Nature, still dicinely bright, One clear unchang'd and universal Light. Life, Foree, and Brauty,...

...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 just standard, which is still the same. Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged and universal light, Life, force, and...

...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 just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and Universal Light, Life, Force, 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'...

...such may be said of Batteux, of Lessing, or of Pope in a passage like the following familiar verses: First follow Nature, and your Judgment frame By her just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and Universal Light, Life, Force, and...