 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 526
...living grace, Withhold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True 1 wit is nature to advantage dress'd, < What oft was...well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at signt wte find, That gives us back the image of onr mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 640
...to trace The naked nature, and the livmg 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 to well'exprcss'd ; 298 Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - Liczba stron: 241
...dose. JAN. the 31s?. Read Boileau's Preface to his Works. Pope's sentiment in his Essay on Criticism, " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd : LI 798.] Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind."... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811
...my having observed, that Pope had ill-defined the subtle essence of wit in the following couplet : " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd;" since new ideas, or rather new combinations of ideas, are vital to its existence.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide w1th ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to...we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - Liczba stron: 171
...destros Em debuxar correctamente, e affoitos With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to...we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to...express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we 6nd, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; NOTES. Ver. 290. And glitt'ring thoughts] A rage that infected Marino, Donne, and his disciple Cowley.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Liczba stron: 436
...trace The naked nature and the living gracej_ With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was.tjhou.ghjt, .but neleOQ. well expressed ; NOTES. Ver. 290. And glitt'ring thoughts] A rage that... | |
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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. 
