 True f wit i' nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.  Poems on Several Subjects - Page ciiiby John Ogilvie - 1769 - 162 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 lehte
...Naturam intueamur, hanc fyuamur ; id facilliml- accipiunt animi quod agnofcunt. Quintil. lib. 8. c. 3. Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As ihades more fweetly recommend the light, So mode ft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit :... | |
 | 1720 - 302 lehte
...Netutem innunmur, hunc frquamur; id facillime accipiunt 4nimi quid agiefcunt. Quini.il, lib. 8. c. 3. ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefsfets offfprightly wit: For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 lehte
...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 we find. That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetJy recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 lehte
...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 we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 lehte
...; which the poet illuftrates, as he didthe weȣ, by ideas taken from the art of Painting. NOTES. Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly wit.... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 lehte
...True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find* That gives us back the image of our mind. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, Somodeft plainnefs fets off Iprightly wit: 305... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 lehte
...vifions in the fancy." But that great Philofopher, in feparating Wit from Judgment, as he does in this 2 Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 lehte
...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 we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly wit.... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 342 lehte
...perfons, who are introduced in a poem, muft on all occafions be diftinguifhed by peculiar characters ; and the manners attributed to each of them ought to...Something « Something whofe truth convinc'd at fight we .fend, That gives us back the image of the mind. A LITTLE reflection will enable us to difcover the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 lehte
...of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefe'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. jop As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit.... | |
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