 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 414 頁
...accustomed to conventional ornaments, according to which pure and noble nature, in order to * L. 297, 298. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprcss'd. 482. Our sons their fathers' failing language see, And such as Chaucer's is, shall... | |
 | 1854 - 696 頁
...have for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd," is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dry den, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 頁
...thus, unskilled 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 is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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 exnress'd • Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image... | |
 | German correspondent of "The Continental echo.", J. W. Carr - 1846 - 504 頁
...language of many a heart, might justly be applied the words of the English poet, as being — " Wisdom to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." But this, though somewhat, would have been all too little, had not these addresses and presents'spoken,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 頁
...heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide...What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; COMMENTARY. sort of bounded capacity, which betrays itself in its judgment on the manner of the work... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 頁
...mendax," " Insanientis sapientise consultas." Pope's definition of wit seems to be an instance : — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, , What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." — Essay on Crit Part II.] 49. Indiciis monstrare. To designate things before undiscovered by new... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 頁
...thus, unskilled 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...advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd ; Something, whoso truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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 is nature to advantage drcss'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well cxpress'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight... | |
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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. 
