 | George Campbell - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...consists not only in giving clear, convincing proofs ; but likewise in the art of moving the passions. Now "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. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 1022
...WIT. TKUE wit is nature to advantage dressed ; 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 mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...thing that can move and animate the passions." (Ibid. dial, ii, p. 54.) Pope justly observes: — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft...we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, 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 mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit; For works may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...of an. True wit is nature to advantage drees'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness set» off sprightly wit; For works... | |
 | 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 866
...the most essential distinction in modern literature ; for, as our modern Horace justly remarks — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Verbal affluence depends less upon a knowledge of primary words than of compounds and synonyms. A very... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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 exprew'd ; . Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...on Poet. True wit is nature to advantage dressed 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 mind. Pope. 54. Strange as it may sound, I believe few people will, on reflection, deny, what a most remarkable... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester, f See BESTTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
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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, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
