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" As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. "
The Adventurer - Page 107
1823
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An Essay on Criticism, 1711

Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1970 - 96 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'rf ; Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. yxi As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works...
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An Essay on the Right of Conquest..

Allan Ramsay - Conquest, Right of - 1783 - 78 pages
...laying before them What oft vf as thought , but ne' erfo well expreß , Something wbofe truth convine' d at Sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. Such is the philofophy of HOMER , HESIOD , VIRGIL , HORACE , JUVENAL and others of the tunefull clafs...
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The British Essayists: The Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 430 pages
...of truth, nor did they reflect any- idea of his own; they were not " Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S Eitay OH Crit. with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic of wit; and if they contained...
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Select British Classics, Volume 19

English literature - 1803 - 254 pages
...truth, nor did they reflect any idea of his own — they were not " Something whose trath convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE. With respect to John therefore they had no characteristic of wit ; and if they contained knowledge,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd , Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets ofl" sprightly wit. For works...
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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar

Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
...advantage drest, '"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest ; "'Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, ' That gives us back the image of our mind. ' As shades more sweetly recommend the light, ' So modest plainness sets off' sprightly wit. ' For...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...truth convinc'd at sight we find, "That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S Mitay w Cril. •with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic...deliberation : ' But though curiosity should be principally dir reeted to useful purposes, yet it should not always. be repressed or diverted, when the use is...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...truth convihc'd at sfgtit fre find, "That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S £isay ai Crii. with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic...knowledge which John had no wish to acquire: the old gentlerfian, hoWever, proceeded thus with great deliberation : ' But though curiosity should be principally...
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