 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.  The annals of Yorkshire - 第 189 頁Henry Schroeder 著 - 1852完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 頁
...thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope,— " True wit.1 is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft. was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the " Rowleyan... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 412 頁
...same thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the ' Rowleyan... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 頁
...same thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the ' Rowleyan... | |
 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 頁
...thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — 9 *Tnie wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the " Rowleyan... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 頁
...pride." " Trust not thyself — thy own defects to know Make use of every friend, and every foe." " True wit is nature to advantage dressed — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all."... | |
 | 1829 - 430 頁
...source in the vulgar opinion, with respect to style and the very nature of language. The poet says, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The critic cavils at this, and says, it is to degrade wit thus to define it, making... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 頁
...verbal critic lays, For not to know some trifles is a praise. [From An Essay on Criticism.] WIT. TKUE 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 頁
...closely akin—one whose originality of style is constantly reminding us of that fine saying of Pope— " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed;" one, in short, who thinks with the common sense of mankind, and writes with a power... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 頁
...the modern sense of ludicrous fancy, I cannot tell. It must have been after Pope's definition — ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' By the way, was there ever a stronger instance than this of the second verse of a... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1836 - 454 頁
...continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed : What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The same animal which hath the honour to have some Eart of his ftesh eaten at the... | |
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