...the Stagirite, formed the tribunal before which all things were tried. Pope himself defines it thus : "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." In the words of Mr. Leslie Stephen, " The dominant figure in Pope's day was the wit....

...feeling of wit is occasioned by those relations of ideas which excite surprise, and surprise alone." " 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 language...

...Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.1 Line 53. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Line 97. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath...

...Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Essay on Oriticivm. To err is human ; to forgive, divine. Essay on Criticism. He's...

...wit of all kinds too ; not merely that power of language which Pope chooses to denominate wit — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed " — but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits....

...things in a better way than anybody else, and in a form that can be remembered, thus defined wit : "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 the...

...believes his own. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their...

...book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense." Legal Humor WER Byrne "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The Ladies John W. Davis "Time will prove, no doors nor locks, Can keep them from...

...the language in which it should be clothed. He acted strictly upon his own canon of criticism :— ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' And he attained to such a command of expression, his skill in the use of verbal felicities...

...likeness. His pithy lines and couplets have obtained a permanent place in literature. Thus we have : — " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " Good-nature and good-sense must ever join. To err is human, to forgive divine."...