First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame
By her just Standard, which is still the same:
Unerring Nature, still divinely bright.
One clear, unchanged and universal light.


'An Essay on Criticism' (1711), lines 68–71


First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame By her just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright. One clear,...

First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame By her just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright. One clear,...

First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame By her just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright. One clear,...

First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame By her just Standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright. One clear,...