 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...coiiv/ulc with the opinion of those whom the last speaker has attacked. My idea of wit is that it ' Is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well eipress'd ;' nor am I less persuaded of the truth of my assertion, that ' wit and judgment ever... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 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...thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose traili convinc'datsight we find., That gives us back the image ofour mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...thus unekill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, hough, long my party built on me their hope«, For writing convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...for wit of all kinds too; not merely that power of language which Pope chorees to denominate wit: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;" but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits. His tpeeches in parliament... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...definition of wit is not sufficiently comprehensive, though it is correct as far as it goes : — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind." Dr. Isaac Barrow observes of... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...thing 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art....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 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 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...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprew'd ; . Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...the most essential distinction in modern literature ; for, as our modern Horace justly remarks — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Verbal affluence depends less upon a knowledge of primary words than of compounds and synonyms. A very... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
