...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...

...critics next, and proved plain fools at last. (Fr. I) 24 So vast is art, so narrow human wit. (Fr. I) 25 w one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees! — (1. 3—6) 6 Unerring Nature, still divinely bright. One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and...

...lines seeking to reconcile different, difficultly various considerations involved in critical judgment: 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...

...lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more; Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what...frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, 70 Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the...

...imitate nature, but only nature at her most ideal, was codified in Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism: "First follow Nature, and your judgment frame / by her just standard, which is still the same ____ Those rules of old discovered, not devised, / Are Nature still, but Nature methodized." 29. See,...

...die ihrerseits als etwas Ursprüngliches gesehen wird, das durch Kunst „methodisiert" werden muß: 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...

...now takes place in the American government, and is indispensable in the British government."* XIII. First follow nature; and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same. POPE. The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused. Newspapers, magazines,...

...Messenger, 389. Charting the Mesmeric T\irn Sympathy, Animal Magnetism, and the Motion of the Mind 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...

...Heaven, to Nature, to Art, to the Artist at work with Pope's impassioned lines that look back to Boileau. 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...