 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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...but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. , soo As shades more sweetly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 頁
...thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, -And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd jj, Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find^' That gives us back the image of our mind. As... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 頁
...the subject in Miss Burney's Diary (Oct. 29, 1782). " Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — s True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. ' That, sir,' cried Dr. Johnson, ' is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 頁
...on the subject in Miss Burney's Diary (Oct. 29, 1782). " Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated,— True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. ' That, sir,' cried Dr. Johnson, ' is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 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...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 - 1860 - 632 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...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exoreu'd Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image or our... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 頁
...in wit has been profuse, Want as much more, to turn it to its use. POPE. — On Criticism, Line 80. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. POPE. — Line 207. Wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 頁
...unskill'd to trace The naked naturt, and the living grace, "With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dress' d, » What 6ft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth convinced at... | |
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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. 
