 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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'rf ; Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 lehte
...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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 convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As... | |
 | 1806 - 408 lehte
...the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 lehte
...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 convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 lehte
...the author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, which bears rather hard on himself: " True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.'* . Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them) of ostlers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 lehte
...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 convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. As shades... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 lehte
...author has introduced a couplet from the writings of Pope, .which bears rather hard on himself: ". True. wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.*7 Now, although there may be much nature in the characters (as Fielding has drawn them)... | |
 | 1808 - 408 lehte
...grace, With gold and jewels euvcr cv'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit U 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 shade... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 lehte
...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 ; 298 Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 lehte
...living grace, with gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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 convinc'd at sight we find, that give us back the image of our mind. 300 As... | |
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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. 
