 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 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 6nd, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pàgines
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide w1th 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 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 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.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pàgines
...of art. True wit is Nature *o 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 our mind. "i As shades more sweetly recommend the light, ft So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit ; t '_... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 686 pàgines
...not impressed with the signature of truth, nor did they reflect any idea of his own ; they were not Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind : PoPE'S ESSAY otJ CRIT. with respect to John, therefore, they had no characteristic of wit ; and if... | |
 | 1823 - 324 pàgines
...not impressed with the signature of truth, nor did they reflect any idea of his own ; they were not Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind : PoPE'S ESSAY ov CRIT. with respect to John, therefore, they had no characteristic of wit; and if... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pàgines
...SIR, •" A JusTtY-admired poet of our own times, speaking in reference to his art, tells us, that True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. " The same, it is presumed, may be said of almost every kind of writing. Europe is at present so much... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 636 pàgines
...FITZ-ADAM. •SIR, ' A jUsTLY-admiredpoet of our own times, speaking in reference to his art, tells us, that True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. ' The same, it is presumed, may be said of almost every kind of writing. Europe is at present so much... | |
 | 1823 - 440 pàgines
...F1TZ-ADAM. " Sill, " A jusTLY-admiredpoet of our own times, speaking in reference to his art, tells us, that True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. " The same, it is presumed, may be said of almost every kind of writing. Europe is at present so much... | |
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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. 
