...has neglected the study of that great volume which, in the words of a very different sort of poet, " Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, .At once the source, and end, and test of art." Mr Milman's plan, therefore, possesses several advantages over that of the original which suggested...

...the same. UNERRING NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Lite, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the SOURCE, and END, and TEST, of ART ! !" Essay on Criticiim. This general opinion, thus 'admirably and elegantly expressed, will be quite...

...inimitably Each might his sev'ral province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame ^ By her just standard, which is still the same : • ; NOTES. well, as Fielding in Tom Jones, would have done the same ; but both these authors have...

...inimitably Each might his sev'ral province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : NOTES. well, as Fielding in Tom Jones, would have done the same ; but both these authors have failed...

...the respectability and discernment of the assembly, to observe in some degree the rule of the poet, First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same. This complaint is but the echo of what w* have frequently heard from his brethren, to which we earnestly...

...therefore, unwilling to admit any exception to the rule which Pope lays down, in his " Essay on Criticism :" First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her...Unerring nature still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and...

...TO THE RIGHT HOK. LORD BYRON, IN VINDICATION OF THEIR DEFENCE Of THE POETICAL CHARACTER OF I'OI'E. First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is slill the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light;...

...them more : Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. t muni to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply...

...acquires beauty by its being reduced to its true standard. Such is the sense of these two important lines, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. II. The necessity of the precept is seen from hence. The two constituent qualities of a Composition,...

...could be produced, are sufficient to refute the assertion that " One science only will one genius fit." First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : COMMENTARY. Ver. 68. First follow Nature, #c.] The Critic observing the directions before given,...