 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - Liczba stron: 468
...confine, And glitt'ring thoughts ftruck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets...ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True * wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1749 - Liczba stron: 110
...for the cxcrcife points and of this quality, contents '.'. Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - Liczba stron: 264
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 295 Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb well exprefs'd... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - Liczba stron: 292
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unlkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perifh through excefs of blood. Others... | |
 | Art - 1762 - Liczba stron: 290
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -Poets, like painters, thus un&ill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perifh through excefs of blood. Others... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - Liczba stron: 534
...in drefs or in language, ihows a mean or corrupted tafte : •_ Poets, like painters, thus unfldll'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, ;...'...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property recommends a machine more than its fimplicity ;... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Liczba stron: 592
...wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace ** The naked nature and the living grace,...ev'ry part, " And hide with ornaments their want of art.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes the nature of the true fpecies of wit. C( True Wit... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Liczba stron: 600
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace " The naked nature and the living grace,...ev'ry part, *' And hide with ornaments their want of art." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes the nature of the true fpecies of wit. " True Wit is... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - Liczba stron: 524
...290 Pleas'd with a work where nothuig'sjust or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Pcets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art/ True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - Liczba stron: 410
...or fit j One glaring Ghaos and wild teap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace 29$ The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and...ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ;... | |
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Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the... 
