 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pàgines
...drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As fLades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit : For works may... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 430 pàgines
...of truth, nor did they reflect any- idea of his own; they were not " Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S Eitay OH Crit. with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic of wit; and if they... | |
 | 1803 - 254 pàgines
...truth, nor did they reflect any idea of his own — they were not " Something whose trath convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE. With respect to John therefore they had no characteristic of wit ; and if they contained knowledge,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pàgines
...living grace, 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...but ne'er so well express'd , Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pàgines
...the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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 express'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pàgines
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth eonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of...shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pàgines
...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...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pàgines
...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...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 pàgines
...the author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, which bears rather hard on himself: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.'* . Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them) of ostlers,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pàgines
...grace, With gold and jewels euvcr cv'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit U Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought,...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shade s more sweetly recommend... | |
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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. 
