 Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes;...  The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy ... - Page 9069edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - Genius - 1820 - 138 pages
...wit, as nature, what affects our hearty Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 'T is not a lip, nor eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all." t We often find a trifling incident, or a slight turn of expression, in a celebrated author, praised,... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 328 pages
...repea .ting, \ i " When we view some well-proportion'd dome, The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome ! . No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes." As he descended into the street for the purpose of surveying the beauties of the interior, he met his... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - Rome - 1821 - 172 pages
...feds, though nobody can exactly describe." Pope teaches that general effect only is beauty, " 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, " But the joint force and full result of all." Essay on Criticism. . The last lines may be an allusion to the story of Apelles and the beauties of... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not the' exactness of peculiar parts; Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and e'en thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 245 But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome !) NOTES. The second line,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 245 But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome !) NOTES. The second line,... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Aesthetics - 1823 - 438 pages
...not harmonize consequently with the general spirit. of the poem, and as Pope himself observes, 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. That ideas, or images, disagreeable in themselves may produce the finest effect in composition will... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis s a stanza, when he should engross? Is there, who, lock'd 0 r well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 245 But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome !) NOTES. lossal works, we... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 245 But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome !) NOTES. lossal works, we... | |
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