 True wit is nature to 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.  new monthly magazine - Page 350by william harrison ainsworth - 1857Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to 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. As shades... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.—Johnson. CCCXXIX. True wit is nature to 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. As shades... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. «, For writing ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. 300... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | George Campbell - Oratory - 1832 - 320 pages
...consists not only in giving clear, convincing proofs ; but likewise in the art of moving the passions. Now "True wit is nature to 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. As shades... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1833 - 516 pages
...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 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. As shades... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...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 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." Dr.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 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. 300... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...the most essential distinction in modern literature ; for, as our modern Horace justly remarks — " True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Verbal affluence depends less upon a knowledge of primary words than of compounds and synonyms. A very... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...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 oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprew'd ; . Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find ; That gives us back the image... | |
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