 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 Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...where nothing's just or fit j One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit Poets like painters, thus unskiH'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...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
...chaos and wild heap of wit Poets like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the livmg grace, With gold and jewels cover every part. And...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."... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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 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 Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...where nothing's justor fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit Poeti like painters, thus unskill'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. True » wit is nature to advantage dresa'd,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 and hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
 | 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
...nothing's just or £f, One glaring chaos and 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 with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide w1th ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd... | |
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