id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 7409 Pope, Alexander An Essay on Criticism .txt text/plain 9196 662 84 beautiful and striking lines and a general revision of his works, closed Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true [17] The generous critic fanned the poet's fire, True wit is nature to advantage dressed; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line, Though wit and art conspire to move your mind; [Line 17: Wit is used in the poem in a great variety of [Line 34: Maevius--An insignificant poet of the Augustan age, since "wit" has a different meaning in the two lines: in 80, it means [Lines 130-136: It is said that Virgil first intended to write a poem The poet gives a remarkable example in the next line.] [Line 361: Sir John Denham, a poet of the time of Charles I. [Lines 366-373: In this passage the poet obviously intended to make [Line 479: Patriarch wits--Perhaps an allusion to the great [Line 552: Wit's Titans.--The Titans, in Greek mythology, ./cache/7409.txt ./txt/7409.txt