Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd 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... M. Tulli Ciceronis Ad. M. Brutum Orator - Page 62by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1885 - 257 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...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, unskill'd to trace The...ev'ry part, 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 ; * Naturam... | |
| English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...thus, unfkill'd to trace,' : - : •• / ' The naked nature and the living grace, -, } -; • 'f**With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True * wit is,natare to advantage drefs'd, , n^^L What'oft' was thought, but ne'er /o ; well e^refs'd;... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature atid 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, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd; * NutHtam... | |
| David Fordyce - Education - 1745 - 472 pages
...Daubers of Nature, than a favourite Poet is to blame thofe Pretenders to Wit, who, - — ^-unskilled to trace, *The naked Nature and the living Grace, With Gold and Jewels cover every Part, And hide "with Ornaments their Want of Art. But after all, Madam, would you have Conver-.... | |
| Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...contents '.'. Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace 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 advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...Nicety^ which is a bafying one's felf about points and fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkilFd to 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 advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...Nicety, which is a bufyinj one's felf about points Snd fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to 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 advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
| Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 295 Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb well exprefs'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...f<. ft '^ chikuufelf with Kiitifr wsi&k ;» 4 i-_fr j / vr^|V|H Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 2 9 5 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...nothing's juft or fit; .One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to 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 advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
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