 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - Liczba stron: 458
...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 convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. K 5 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - Liczba stron: 328
...thoughts and words ; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject." So Pope, " True Wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." Dryden, however, is very inconstant in the employment of the word, and Pope, too, uses it in the most... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - Liczba stron: 330
...rather imitated and new modelled, by no less an author than the celebrated Le Sage." — Warloii.J 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 imago of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1853 - Liczba stron: 644
...Slugenblirf, aie 76) Sffiit Mtbinbcn, um blefe fdne ättttnmtfl auijuktütfen SS. 297—298. True wit ¡s nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd mit £. 482: Our sons their father's failing language see And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be.... | |
 | 1854 - Liczba stron: 598
...subject have, for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd, is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - Liczba stron: 608
...subject have, for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. z NA M \ "Ϗ9 H f 0 u% ~g k @bc$c bd s^ 4 ybo ̸ e d r > /L * l0 is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - Liczba stron: 352
...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 convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - Liczba stron: 356
...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...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. , soo As shades more sweetly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - Liczba stron: 512
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, -And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd jj, Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find^' That gives us back the image of our mind. As... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - Liczba stron: 418
...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 convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
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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. 
