 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 320 страници
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester. f See BEATTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 396 страници
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester, f See BESTTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 страници
...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. Pope. 54. Strange as it may sound, I believe few people will, on reflection, deny, what a most remarkable... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 страници
...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...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. Pope. SIMPLICITY. IT is with books as with women ; where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 страници
...advantage drcss'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced reatest statesmen of all parties, as well as to all...the courts of law in this nation. T Two persons, no So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - 320 страници
...everything that can move and animate the passions." — Ibid., dial. ii., p. 54. PoPE justly observes, " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...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 shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 460 страници
...victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 444 страници
...victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 662 страници
...abruptly withdrew. The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expresa'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit... | |
 | 1843 - 746 страници
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly cipplicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
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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. 
