 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - Liczba stron: 322
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester. f See BEATTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - Liczba stron: 510
...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 drcss'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - Liczba stron: 276
...thus, unskilled 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 dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - Liczba stron: 320
...everything that can move and animate the passions." — Ibid., dial. ii., p. 54. PoPE justly observes, " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - Liczba stron: 460
...victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - Liczba stron: 444
...victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - Liczba stron: 654
...abruptly withdrew. The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expresa'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit... | |
 | 1843 - Liczba stron: 746
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly cipplicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - Liczba stron: 410
...accustomed to conventional ornaments, according to which pure and noble nature, in order to * L. 297, 298. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. 482. Our sons their fathers' failing language see. And such as Chaucer's is, shall Dryden's be. appear... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1843 - Liczba stron: 852
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly applicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets ; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
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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. 
