Blest with a Taste exact, yet unconfin'd;
A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind;
Gen'rous Converse; a Sound exempt from Pride;
And Love to Praise, with Reason on his Side?
(An Essay On Criticism)
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Provoking Daemons all restraint remove,And stir within me every source of love.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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May one kind grave unite each hapless name,
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.
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What though no weeping loves thy ashes grace,
Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face?
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