 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 стор.
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 стор.
...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.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 стор.
...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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 стор.
...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."... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - 1912 - 258 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 стор.
...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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 стор.
...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."... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 стор.
...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."... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 стор.
...sound, while the consonants that precede these vowels are different, as in the following: "True art is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." An admissible rhyme is one in which the closing vowels, while not the same, closely... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1887 - 300 стор.
...which there is a correspondence of sound in the last syllables of two or more lines ; as, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expmsW." 748. Blank Verse is metrical language without rhyme ; as, " Shall we serve Heaven With... | |
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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. 
