 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
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 460 pages
...victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 662 pages
...abruptly withdrew. The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expresa'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1843 - 852 pages
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly applicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets ; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 410 pages
...accustomed to conventional ornaments, according to which pure and noble nature, in order to * L. 297, 298. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. 482. Our sons their fathers' failing language see. And such as Chaucer's is, shall Dryden's be. appear... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly cipplicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 414 pages
...accustomed to conventional ornaments, according to which pure and noble nature, in order to * L. 297, 298. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprcss'd. 482. Our sons their fathers' failing language see, And such as Chaucer's is, shall... | |
 | English language - 1983 - 324 pages
...of a country without having control over the language of that country. Pope's famous couplet runs: True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. And Hudson, in his popular book An Introduction to the Study of Literature, writes, "Literature is... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...the Algebra of Relations and Their Affiliates (Logic without Connectives. Variables. or Quantifiers) "True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...so well express'd; Something whose truth convinc'd we find. That gives us back the image of our mind." Pope Of all areas of modern logic, one of the most... | |
 | Mark Amsler - Psychology - 1986 - 222 pages
...are converging toward similar concepts. This effect of style may be likened to Pope's comment on wit: True wit is nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. The importance of style in poetry is clear and reflects not only the conventions of the poet's time... | |
 | Bessie G. Redfield - Reference - 1986 - 328 pages
...consisting of five lines. closed couplet: a couplet whose sense is completed within its two lines. Example: True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. consonance: the use of and identical pattern of consonants in different words. Example: slow, sly,... | |
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