 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit...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, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 páginas
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace > The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; * What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; v Something, NOTES. VER. 290. And glitl'ring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 páginas
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unikill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, NOTES. VER. 290. And g Ktt'ring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...thus unskiH'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...nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, hut ne'er so well expresa'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...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...whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...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...but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth eonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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)... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...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; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...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...something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, that give us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, so modest plainness... | |
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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, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
