 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 314 страници
...Nicety, which is a bufying one's felf about points and fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; COMMENTARY. his attention to a part,... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 страници
...And glitt'ring thoughts ftrack out at ev'ry line ; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unlkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 страници
...And glitt'ring thoughts flruck out at ev'iy line ; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -Poets, like painters, thus un&ill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 534 страници
...in drefs or in language, ihows a mean or corrupted tafte : •_ Poets, like painters, thus unfldll'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, ;...' With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property recommends... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 страници
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace " The naked nature and the living grace, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, *' And hide with ornaments their want of art." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 страници
...wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace ** The naked nature and the living grace, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, " And hide with ornaments their want of art.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 страници
...glitt'ring thoughts ftrnck out at ev'ry lines 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit } One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unlkill'd to trace Tjie naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 страници
...or fit j One glaring Ghaos and wild teap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace 29$ The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was thought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 страници
...painters* thus unfkill'd to 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 advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at f:ght... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 страници
...unflclH'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 195 And hide with ornaments their want of art. • True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line ; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the... 
