 | 1808 - 408 страници
...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,...find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shade s more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. Tor works may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 страници
...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...but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth eonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 страници
...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,... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 страници
...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.*7 Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them)... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...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...mind. 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...What oft was I bought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd, Siinelhing,whosi- truth convinc'd alight wefind, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the, light, ,N> modest plainnes., sets ofV sprightly wit. Fur works mavlMvc more wit than does 'em good, A' bodies... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 184 страници
...pretty, sparkling, quaint thoughts that do not tend to one of these ends, are only witty conceits. * 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 страници
...trace the naked nature and the living grace, with gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 and hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to...something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, that give us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, so modest plainness... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 страници
...trace the naked nature and the living grace, with gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 and hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to...something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, that give us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, so modest plainness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 страници
...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...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; 298 Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.... | |
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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. 
