 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - Liczba stron: 442
...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
...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: 302
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Liczba stron: 480
...advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836
...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 dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprew'd ; . Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image... | |
 | 1836
...the most essential distinction in modern literature ; for, as our modern Horace justly remarks — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Verbal affluence depends less upon a knowledge of primary words than of compounds and synonyms. A very... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Liczba stron: 442
...advantage drees'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd ; Something, whose truth convinced eye, Would from the apparent what, conclude the why; 100 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness set» off sprightly wit; For works... | |
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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. 
