 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 頁
...thus unskill'd 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...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 頁
...thus, unskill'd to traee The naked nature and the living graee, With gold and jewels eover every part, oung-wise, wise-valiant, frame His sire's revenge, join'd with a kingdom's gain, And, gain'd eonvine'd at sight we fmd, That gives us baek the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly reeommend... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 頁
...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 頁
...thus unskill'd 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 頁
...thus unekill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, hough, long my party built on me their hope«, For writing convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 頁
...for wit of all kinds too; not merely that power of language which Pope chorees to denominate wit: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;" but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits. His tpeeches in parliament... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 頁
...definition of wit is not sufficiently comprehensive, though it is correct as far as it goes : — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind." Dr. Isaac Barrow observes of... | |
 | 1833 - 516 頁
...thing that can move and animate the passions." (Ibid. dial, ii, p. 54.) Pope justly observes: — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 頁
...painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art....but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend... | |
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And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
