...wit. Poets, like painters, thus anskilled to trace The naked nature. and the lieing grace, With golds and jewels cover ev'ry part. And hide with ornaments their want of art. —Alexander Pope. An Essay on Criticism Some years ago Marjorie Hope Nicolson concluded that Addison...

...Wit" make the by now familiar transition from dress to nakedness: Poets like Painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked Nature and the living Grace, With...Part, And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art. True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest. (293-300) The same...

...ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 8876 An Essay on Criticism Poets like painters, thus unskilled not be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. 12674 The history 8877 An Essay on Criticism Expresslon is the dress of thought. 8878 An Essay on Criticism As some to...

...nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, 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...

...political and the romantic into a spiritual economy whose ultimate frame of reference is the Bible. With Gold and Jewels cover ev'ry Part, And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art. (II. 289-96) Pope's attitude to the relationship between wit and judgement recalls La Rochefoucauld's...

...nor e'er shall be. Дм Essay on Criticism ( i 71 II I. 2 s Í 18 Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'rv part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What...

...well as in dress and language, shows a mean or corrupted taste. Poets, like painters, 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. No one property recommends a machine more than...