 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
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 328 pages
...thoughts and words ; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject." So Pope, " True Wit is nature to advantage dress'd, "What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." Dryden, however, is very inconstant in the employment of the word, and Pope, too, uses it in the most... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...least difference, thereby to avoid being misled. There are many men of wit, to one man of sense. Pope. 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. A man... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...much talked of, not to be defined, He that pretends to most, too, has least share. Otway. True trit 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... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Europe - 1853 - 644 pages
...Slugenblirf, aie 76) Sffiit Mtbinbcn, um blefe fdne ättttnmtfl auijuktütfen SS. 297—298. True wit ¡s nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd mit £. 482: Our sons their father's failing language see And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...subject have, for the most part, little else than the great names of their authors to give them currency. z NA M \ "Ϗ9 H f 0 u% ~g k @bc$c bd s^ 4 ybo ̸ e d r > /L * l0 is Pope's authoritative decision ; according to Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...subject 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 Dryden, (who frankly owned that he had no comic humor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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 express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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 express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. , soo... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...it from strength of thought to happiness of language. So Sir Richard Blackmore, though a No Pope-ry man, in his explanation of Wit, lays particular stress...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pages
...same thought will appear a new one, to the great delight and wonder of the hearer. It is not in bis critical writings alone that we possess instances...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,... | |
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