 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
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...nothing's juft or fit j 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...nothing's jufl or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unikill'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...nothing's just or fit. One glaring chaus and wild heap of wit. 'Poets, like painters, thus unskiH'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, hut ne'er so well expresa'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...ornaments their want of art. : V . True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, ' "'!\Vhat oft was thought, hut ne'er so well express'd; '*• Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. 100 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 living grace, With...whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...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 living grace, With...but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth eonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 236 pages
...the author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, which bears rather hard on himself: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.'* . Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them) of ostlers,... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 240 pages
...author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, .which bears rather hard on himself: ". True. wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.*7 Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them)... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 living grace, With...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 convinc'd at sight... | |
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