Alexander Pope Quotes About Criticism
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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