 | 1806 - Liczba stron: 408
...thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - Liczba stron: 550
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace > The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; * What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; v Something, NOTES. VER. 290. And glitl'ring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - Liczba stron: 554
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unikill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, NOTES. VER. 290. And g Ktt'ring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - Liczba stron: 474
...thus unskiH'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, , And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit...nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, hut ne'er so well expresa'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - Liczba stron: 328
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit...whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Liczba stron: 698
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art* True wit...but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth eonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - Liczba stron: 232
...the author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, which bears rather hard on himself: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.'* . Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them) of ostlers,... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - Liczba stron: 240
...author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, .which bears rather hard on himself: ". True. wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.*7 Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them)... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - Liczba stron: 504
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, -And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress' d, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 314
...wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace the naked nature and the living grace, with gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 and hide...something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, that give us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, so modest plainness... | |
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And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
