 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 páginas
...for, is his being constantly the same. He is never what we call hum-drum ; never unwilling to begin (True wit is Nature to advantage drest ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.) [Pope's Essay on Criticism, ii. 297.] but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of... | |
 | 1803 - 502 páginas
...we laugh, and wonder That things so like, so long were kept asunder. * Pope thus defines wit — — True wit is nature to advantage drest, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. This by no means appears an accurate definition. Wit, to deserve its name, must in some... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 páginas
...whole, to continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 páginas
...certain method of preaching well for yourself, is to preach usefully to others. § POPE justly observes " True wit is nature to advantage drest, '"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest ; "'Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, ' That gives us back the image... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 496 páginas
...for wit of all kinds too : not merely that power of language which Pope chooses to denominate wit : (True wit is Nature to advantage drest ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.) envy Burke for, is, his being constantly the same. He is never what we call hum-drum... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 páginas
...acceptation at present, whereas it is evidently used in the old acceptation for genius (esprit).... " True wit is nature to advantage drest, " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." But if it is the " wit of a man" to which the critic objects, he ought to have known that " a man"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 páginas
...for wit of all kinds too ; not merely that power of language which Pope chooses to denominate wit, (True wit is Nature to advantage drest ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.) but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits. His... | |
 | 1820 - 380 páginas
...whole, to continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. The same animal, which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...wits. Serious wit, therefore, is neither more nor less than quick wisdom, or according to Pope, — True wit is nature to advantage drest, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. Second, as to comic wit, this is the general acceptation of wit amongst us, and is of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...wits. Serious wit, therefore, is neither more nor less than quick wisdom, or according to Pope, — True wit is nature to advantage drest, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. Second, as to comic wit, this is the general acceptation of wit amongst us, and is of... | |
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True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. 
