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
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...corrupted taste : Poets, like painters, thus unskilPd to trace The naked .nature and the living ^race, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. Pofie's Essay on Criticism. No single property recommends a machine more than its simplicity ; not... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...glaring chaus and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thos unskill'd to trace The naked natore and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every...hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is natore to advantage dress'd, What oit was thought, hut ne'er so well exDresx'd Something, whuse truth... | |
| Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 pages
...taste confine, And glittering thoughts, struck out at every line. Poets, like Painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, ....every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. In short, this observation extends to all men, whether society, in general, in a state of improved... | |
| Jacques Delille, Willem Bilderdijk - 1821 - 262 pages
...onze Autheur zegt, maar hy zegt het in een geheel anderen zin. Poets like Painters thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked Nature and the living Grace, With Gold and Jewels cover ev'ry part, And hidc with Ornaments their want of art. Hier fpreekt Pope niet van uitdrukkingen ontleend... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...nothing 'a 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 convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living gracej_ 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 ; What oft was.tjhou.ghjt, .but neleOQ. well expressed ; NOTES. Ver. 290. And glitt'ring thoughts] A rage that... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...nothing's jnst or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, (hus unskilled to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature *o advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; Something, whose truth convinced... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 pages
...as in dress or in language, shows a mean or corrupted taste : Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. Pope's Essay on Criticism. No single property recommends a machine more than its simplicity ; not solely... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...FITZ-ADAM. •SIR, ' A jUsTLY-admiredpoet of our own times, speaking in reference to his art, tells us, that True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. ' The same, it is presumed, may be said of almost every kind of writing. Europe is at present so much... | |
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