 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 Seiten
...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...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 - 1867 - 626 Seiten
...poem was so violent as to resemble the production of a lunatic. See Dunciad, Book I., line 106, note. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 Seiten
...believes his own. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Envy... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1869 - 300 Seiten
...verse in which there is a correspondence of sound in the last syllables of two or more lines ; as, " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." 748. Blank Verse is metrical language without rhyme ; as, "Shall we serve Heaven With less respect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art1. 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 we find, That gives us back the image... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 Seiten
...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...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 - 1872 - 744 Seiten
...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...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.1 Part ii. Line 53. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Part ii. Line 97. Words are like leaves ; and where they most ahound, Much fruit of sense beneath is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 Seiten
...and therefore one art naturally resorts to the other for terms and illustrations. Quote parallels. " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 Seiten
...Spanish Fryer, ii. 2 : I. 286. Cp. Bk. iii. 559. II. 290-3. Cp. Pope's Essay on Grit., ii. 297 : * True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.' \ 11. 294-7. Cp. Pope's Essay... | |
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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 we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
