 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...least difference, thereby to avoid being misled. There are many men of wit, to one man of sense. Pope. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...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. A man may be a fool with wit;... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 Seiten
...thoughts and words ; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject." So Pope, " True Wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." Dryden, however, is very inconstant in the employment of the word, and Pope, too, uses it in the most... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...much talked of, not to be defined, He that pretends to most, too, has least share. Otway. True trit 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 more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1853 - 644 Seiten
...Slugenblirf, aie 76) Sffiit Mtbinbcn, um blefe fdne ättttnmtfl auijuktütfen SS. 297—298. True wit ¡s nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd mit £. 482: Our sons their father's failing language see And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 Seiten
...subject have, for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. z NA M \ "Ϗ9 H f 0 u% ~g k @bc$c bd s^ 4 ybo ̸ e d r > /L * l0 is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | 1854 - 598 Seiten
...subject have, for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd, is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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. , soo As shades more sweetly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 Seiten
...the subject in Miss Burney's Diary (Oct. 29, 1782). " Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — s 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... | |
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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. 
