 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 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 VARIATION. .•, As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plain nefs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 lehte
...of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, Wkat 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. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit j... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 lehte
...art. 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. As fLades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit :... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 lehte
...art. True wit i» nature to advantage drefs'd, What eft was thought, but ne'er fo well eipfefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As (bodes more fweetly recommend the light, So ••.тЛИ plainnefs fets off fprightly... | |
 | John Aikin - 1796 - 374 lehte
...reverence. 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. The poet, in cenfuring the narrow and partial taftes of fome critics, begins with that for... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 lehte
...csefura of the verfe was very judicioufly tranfpofed to a more efficient term, forrepofe. Ver. 299. Something, whofe truth, convinc'd at fight, we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. '-' In the character of his Elegy, I rejoice to concur with *l the common reader : for by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 lehte
...does in this place, has given us (and he could therefore give us no other) only an account of Wit in Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As NOTES. general : In which falfe wit, tho' not every fpecies of it, is included. A... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 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 linage of our mind. 330 As (hades more fweetly recommend the light, So mndeft plainuefs fcts oft' fprightly... | |
 | 1802 - 314 lehte
...reverence. , 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. The poet in cenfuring the narrow and partial taftes of fome critics, begins with that for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 lehte
...Wit It Nature to advantage drefs'd, Sfc.] This definition is very exaft. Mr. Locke had defined wit to Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As NOTES. " in the affemblage of ideas, and putting thofe together, with quicknefs and... | |
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