 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 страници
...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 exoreu'd Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image or our... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 страници
...in wit has been profuse, Want as much more, to turn it to its use. POPE. — On Criticism, Line 80. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. POPE. — Line 207. Wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 страници
...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 express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | 1864 - 580 страници
...the subject." Very similar to this is the definition given by Pope, in his Essay on Criticism : — " True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." PH TEBPOLPBS. Among the thousand examples that may be brought for the use of this word in the sense... | |
 | 1866 - 328 страници
...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 express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 страници
...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 dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we Bud, That gives us back the image of our mind ; As shades... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 страници
...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 express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 страници
...poem was so violent as to resemble the production of a lunatic. See Dunciad, Book I., line 106, note. 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. 300... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Pope, EC 289. True wit is 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. Pope,... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 страници
...believes his own. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Envy... | |
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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 convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
