 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.  new monthly magazine - Página 350por william harrison ainsworth - 1857Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...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 ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'rf ; Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 páginas
...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, 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. 300 .As... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...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 ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 páginas
...the author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, which bears rather hard on himself: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.'* . Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them) of ostlers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...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 ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 páginas
...author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, .which bears rather hard on himself: ". True. wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.*7 Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them)... | |
 | 1808 - 408 páginas
...grace, With gold and jewels euvcr cv'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit U 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. As shade... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 184 páginas
...pretty, sparkling, quaint thoughts that do not tend to one of these ends, are only witty conceits. * 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. As shades... | |
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