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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. - Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton [Epitaphs : Light] To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art! draw near! Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most dear; Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died. - Epitaph on Harcourt [Epitaphs] Calmly he looked on either Life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear: From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. - Epitaph X [Epitaphs] Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a Man: Simplicity, a child. - Epitaph XI [Character] Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true But are not critics to their judgment too? - Essay of Criticism (l. 17) [Authorship] Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend--and ev'ry foe. - Essay of Criticism (l. 214) [Friends] So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess blood. - Essay of Criticism (l. 302) [Wit] True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. - Essay of Criticism (l. 362), also Epistles of Horace at II, 178 [Authorship] One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. - Essay of Criticism (pt. I, l. 60) [Proverbs : Science] Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile. - Essay of Criticism (pt. II, l. 126) [Style] To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Essay on Criticism [Forgiveness : Proverbs] 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense. - Essay on Criticism (l. 1) [Authorship] So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. - Essay on Criticism (l. 108) [Medicine] Music resembles poetry: in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach And which a master-hand alone can reach. - Essay on Criticism (l. 143) [Music] From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. - Essay on Criticism (l. 152) [Grace] What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. - Essay on Criticism (l. 203) [Pride] Poets like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. - Essay on Criticism (l. 293) [Poets] Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. - Essay on Criticism (l. 309) [Words] Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd. - Essay on Criticism (l. 318) [Style] In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold: Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Essay on Criticism (l. 333) [Words] As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. - Essay on Criticism (l. 343) [Music] The sound must seem an echo to the sense. - Essay on Criticism (l. 365) [Sound] Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. - Essay on Criticism (l. 385) [Extremes] At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shows great pride or little sense. - Essay on Criticism (l. 386) [Trifles] For fools admire, but me of sense approve. - Essay on Criticism (l. 391) [Admiration] Displaying page 16 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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