Th’ increasing prospect tires our wand’ring eyes. Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! 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;
ATTRIBUTION:
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.
