 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art, True Wit is Nature to...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; COMMENTARY. 305.] are those who confine their attention solely to Conceit or Wit. And here again the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...Nature to advantage dress'd, #c.] This definition is very exact. Mr. Locke had defined wit to consist Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind, 300 NOTES. " in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together, with quickness and variety, wherein... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with hat choice to choose for delicacy best, What order, so con ofs was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...to traee The naked nature and the living graee, With gold and jewels eover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art True wit is nature to...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth eonvine'd at sight we fmd, That gives us baek the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly reeommend... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...coiiv/ulc with the opinion of those whom the last speaker has attacked. My idea of wit is that it ' Is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well eipress'd ;' nor am I less persuaded of the truth of my assertion, that ' wit and judgment ever... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 páginas
...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...thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose traili convinc'datsight we find., That gives us back the image ofour mind. As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.—Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, 1sor works may have more wit than docs 'em good, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. As bodies... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies... | |
 | 1829 - 430 páginas
...poetry, to eloquence, whether in verse or prose, are not of this nature ; and wit or wisdom, that " Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind," is but a form of that matchless and mysterious beauty, which to language alone we owe the power not... | |
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As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. 
