 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - Liczba stron: 258
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 | Laconics - 1829 - Liczba stron: 358
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.—Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, 1sor works may have more wit than docs 'em good, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. As bodies... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Liczba stron: 354
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies... | |
 | 1829 - Liczba stron: 430
...poetry, to eloquence, whether in verse or prose, are not of this nature ; and wit or wisdom, that " Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind," is but a form of that matchless and mysterious beauty, which to language alone we owe the power not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - Liczba stron: 500
...to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with party built on me their hope«, For writing convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 612
...for wit of all kinds too; not merely that power of language which Pope chorees to denominate wit: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;" but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits. His tpeeches in parliament... | |
 | George Campbell - 1832 - Liczba stron: 320
...consists not only in giving clear, convincing proofs ; but likewise in the art of moving the passions. Now "True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light : So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies... | |
 | 1833 - Liczba stron: 516
...thing 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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - Liczba stron: 414
...definition of wit is not sufficiently comprehensive, though it is correct as far as it goes : — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind." Dr. Isaac Barrow observes of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - Liczba stron: 378
...trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to...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... | |
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As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. 
