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" True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. "
An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D... - Página 351
por Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 559 páginas
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late ..., Volumen2

Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 páginas
...thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought,...Bryant on the ' Rowleyan Controversy,' and that Dean Milles had published a pompous quarto edition of the author. Both these gentlemen have been completely...
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including ..., Volumen2

Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 414 páginas
...language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to adrantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well...in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the ' Rowley an Controversy,' and that Dean Milles had published a pompous quarto edition of the author....
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The London University Magazine, Volumen1

1829 - 430 páginas
...the vulgar opinion, with respect to style and the very nature of language. The poet says, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The critic cavils at this, and says, it is to degrade wit thus to define it, making...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...critic lays, For not to know some trifles is a praise. [From An Essay on Criticism.] WIT. TKUE wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed : Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volumen2

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 páginas
...modern sense of ludicrous fancy, I cannot tell. It must have been after Pope's definition — ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' By the way, was there ever a stronger instance than this of the second verse of a...
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American Quarterly Review, Volumen17

Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 páginas
...akin—one whose originality of style is constantly reminding us of that fine saying of Pope— " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed;" one, in short, who thinks with the common sense of mankind, and writes with a power...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volumen1

Henry Fielding - 1836 - 454 páginas
...the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed : What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The same animal which hath the honour to have some Eart of his ftesh eaten at the...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volumen2

Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 páginas
...modern sense of ludicrous fancy, I cannot tell. It must have been after Pope's definition — True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. " llth. — Read a curious old life of Sir T. More, just published from a MS. at Lambeth,...
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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ...

Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 páginas
...sometimes behind a cloud retired Breaks out again, and is by all admired. 53. Buckingham on Poet. True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth, convinced, at sight we find That gives us back the image of...
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Portfolio of an Artist

Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 páginas
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of...
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