 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace the naked nature and the living grace, with gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 and hide...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...thus unskiH'd to 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the livmg grace, With gold and jewels cover every part. And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er to well'exprcss'd ; 298 Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...living grace, Withhold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True 1 wit is nature to advantage dress'd, < What oft was...well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at signt wte find, That gives us back the image of onr mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light,... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...dose. JAN. the 31s?. Read Boileau's Preface to his Works. Pope's sentiment in his Essay on Criticism, " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd : LI 798.] Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind."... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 464 pages
...my having observed, that Pope had ill-defined the subtle essence of wit in the following couplet : " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd;" since new ideas, or rather new combinations of ideas, are vital to its existence.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...heap of wit. . Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we 6nd, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; NOTES. Ver. 290. And glitt'ring thoughts] A rage that infected Marino, Donne, and his disciple Cowley.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...thus unskill'd to 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living gracej_ With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was.tjhou.ghjt, .but neleOQ. well expressed ; NOTES. Ver. 290. And glitt'ring thoughts] A rage that... | |
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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. 
