When first young Maro in his boundless mind 130
A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd,
Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law,
And but from Nature's scorn'd to draw:
But when t' examine ev'ry part he came,
Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd,
Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law,
And but from Nature's scorn'd to draw:
But when t' examine ev'ry part he came,
Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Alexander Pope
