 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 стор.
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want 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... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 стор.
...adapted to the subject," and Pope gives us a similar opinion in the following words — " 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 to our... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 стор.
...A good example of this art is supplied by the couplet which has just been quoted from ; ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' 62 THE ENGLISH POETS. which is Pope's compressed form of the following prose of Boileau... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 стор.
...A good example of this art is supplied by the couplet which has just been quoted from ; ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' which is Pope's compressed form of the following prose of Boileau ; ' Qu'est-ce qu'une... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 стор.
...night .... Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy Nature is to' copy them. 297. 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... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 440 стор.
...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.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 стор.
...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... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 248 стор.
...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... | |
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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. 
