 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...And glitt'ring thoughts ftruck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True * wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...And glitt'ring thoughts ftfuck out at ev'ry line ; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature atid the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part* And... | |
 | David Fordyce - Education - 1745 - 472 pages
...Daubers of Nature, than a favourite Poet is to blame thofe Pretenders to Wit, who, - — ^-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. But after all, Madam, would you have Conver-.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...cxcrcife points and of this quality, contents '.'. Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Co MMEN TA RY. but likewife falfe Wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...Nicety, which is a bufyinj one's felf about points Snd fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...Nicety^ which is a bafying one's felf about points and fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkilFd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...their want of art True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...f<. ft '^ chikuufelf with Kiitifr wsi&k ;» 4 i-_fr j / vr^|V|H Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 2 9 5 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 295 Poets like painters, thus unfkill'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 -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...glitt'ring thoughts ftruck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; .One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...Nicety, which is a bufying one's felf about points and Syllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line ; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the... 
