 Poets, like painters, 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 is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd...  Poetical Works - Page 11by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...Nicety, which is a bufying one's felf about points and 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... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unlkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good,... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -Poets, like painters, thus un&ill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...in drefs or in language, ihows a mean or corrupted tafte : •_ Poets, like painters, thus unfldll'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, ;...' With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace " The naked nature and the living grace, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, *' And hide with ornaments their want of art." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace ** The naked nature and the living grace, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, " And hide with ornaments their want of art.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...nothuig'sjust or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Pcets, 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 with ornaments their want of art/ True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...thus, unfkill'd to trace 29$ The naked nature and 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 ; 30$ Something, whofe truth convinc'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 406 pages
...nothing 's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus unflcill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, z95 And hide with ornaments their want of art. '. ' . True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...unflclH'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 195 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 ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
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