 | 1847 - 540 páginas
...again. 15. True wit is nature to advantage drest, That oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest, Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 16. What is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known, To... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 páginas
...mendax," " Insanientis sapientise consultas." Pope's definition of wit seems to be an instance : — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, , What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." — Essay on Crit Part II.] 49. Indiciis monstrare. To designate things before undiscovered by new... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 páginas
...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 JTis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill But of the two less... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 páginas
...— What oft was thought, - but - ne'er so well expressed ; — Something - whose truth, - convinced at sight, - we find, That gives us back - the image...mind. As shades - more sweetly recommend the light, So - modest plainness - sets off sprightly wit. For - works - may have more wit than does them good,... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 1991 - 226 páginas
...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. ("Essay on Criticism." 11, 97-100) This is not a reconce penalization of Nature but an improved restatement... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 páginas
...following lines: 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 of our Mind — (From: An Essay on Criticism, 1711, I, 297-300)16 It was Wit, as originality (and brevity) of expression,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced on 10 By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: EnLoPo; He (Fr. II) 38 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 páginas
...when he writes True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest What oft was Thought hut ne'er so well Exprest, Something, whose Truth convinc'd at sight we find That gives us back the image of our Mind. (297-300) In these lines, there is a fresh attempt to integrate human beings, nature and language;... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1993 - 308 páginas
...power of making bright and acceptable the drab, mechanic guesses of writers with an eye to reality. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. The Refrain in Poe's Poetry Anthony Caputi EDGAR ALLAN POE'S use of the refrain constitutes a valuable... | |
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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. 
