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 - Página 11por Alexander Pope - 1808Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...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 - 1810 - 546 páginas
...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 - 1810 - 656 páginas
...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 - 1810 - 262 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1810 - 648 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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