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1. A perfect judge will read each work of wit

First Line:: A perfect judge will read each work of wit
Last Line:: Dulness is ever apt to magnify
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30645

2. But you who seek to give and merit fame

First Line:: But you who seek to give and merit fame
Last Line:: Would all but stoop to what they understand
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37113

3. But most by numbers judge a poet's song

First Line:: But most by numbers judge a poet's song
Last Line:: And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37196

4. First follow nature and your judgement frame

First Line:: First follow nature and your judgement frame
Last Line:: Itself unseen but in the effects remains
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30639

5. Learn then what morals critics ought to show

First Line:: Learn then what morals critics ought to show
Last Line:: And love to praise with reason on his side
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30651

6. Of all the causes which conspire to blind

First Line:: Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Last Line:: And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37119

7. Of all the causes which conspire to blind

First Line:: Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Last Line:: Nor yet the last to lay the old aside
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38241

8. Short is the date alas of modern rhymes

First Line:: Short is the date alas of modern rhymes
Last Line:: And all the bright creation fades away
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37122

9. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare

First Line:: Some beauties yet no precepts can declare
Last Line:: Nor is it Homer nods but we that dream
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30642

10. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare

First Line:: Some beauties yet no precepts can declare
Last Line:: The heart and all its end at once attains
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37116

11. Some never advance a judgement of their own

First Line:: Some never advance a judgement of their own
Last Line:: And it is but just to let them live betimes
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30647

12. Tis hard to say if greater want of skill

First Line:: Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
Last Line:: Glows while he reads but trembles as he writes
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38240

13. Tis hard to say if greater want of skill

First Line:: Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
Last Line:: Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2105

14. Tis hard to say if greater want of skill

First Line:: Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
Last Line:: Would all but stoop to what they understand
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37110

15. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see

First Line:: Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see
Last Line:: Applause in spite of trivial faults is due
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33753

16. You then whose judgement the right course would steer

First Line:: You then whose judgement the right course would steer
Last Line:: And let your comment be the Mantuan muse
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30640