 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
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester. f See BEATTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...should * See an Essay in the Transactions of the Society at Manchester, f See BESTTIE on " Poetry." J True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. — POPE. observe to you, has advanced some very ingenious and candid remarks touching resemblances... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 462 pages
...will not curb the vehemence of his love of victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True...how it will, it will equally be wit, and neither the more nor the less for any advantage dress can give it." Mr. P. But, sir, may not wit be so ill expressed,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 460 pages
...will not curb the vehemence of his love of victory and superiority ! The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True...both false and foolish. Let wit be dressed how it willr it will equally be wit, and neither the more nor the less for any advantage dress can give it."... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 580 pages
...Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dreas'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er eo well express'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson,...how it will, it will equally be wit, and neither the more nor the less for any advantage dress can give it." Mr. P. But, sir, may not wit be so ill expressed,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 662 pages
...frum him, and wishing Mrs. Thrale good night, very abruptly withdrew. The sum of the dispute was this. Wit being talked of, Mr. Pepys repeated, — " True...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expresa'd." " That, sir," cried Dr. Johnson, " is a definition both false and foolish. Let wit... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1842 - 320 pages
...everything 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... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1843 - 410 pages
...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 express'd. 482. Our sons their fathers' failing language see. And such as Chaucer's is, shall Dryden's be. appear... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly cipplicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1843 - 852 pages
...almost all writing that is graceful and pleasing, and is peculiarly applicable to the present volume. ' True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.' Or, to take another quotation from one of our older poets ; f which, however, is still more happily... | |
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