 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 sivua
...nothing 's juft or lit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefsV. ; What oft was t... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 sivua
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring choas ami wild heap of wit. « Poets, like painters, thus unlkill'd to trace The naked nature and 'the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 29? Arid hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 sivua
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 395 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd } What oft was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 sivua
...fhort ideas; and offend in arts (As mod in manners) by a lovs to part^. And hide with ornaments tneir want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exSome to Conceit alone their tafle confine, Ai.d glittering thouf bts flruck out at every line ; Pleas'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 sivua
...nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 sivua
...unfkill'd to trace The naVed nature, and the Iving grac?, With gold and jewels cover every part, 305 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drcfs'd, What oft was thought, but, ne'er fo well expre.Vd ; • Something, whofe truth convinc'd at... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 sivua
...nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. | Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace ; The naked nature, and the living grace:, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornamenta their want of art. True Wit is Nattrre to advantage drcfs'd,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 sivua
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thirs, unfkiil'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide wilh ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drcfs'd ; What oft wasthought.but... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sivua
...thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 sivua
...nothing's just or fit. One glaring chaus and wild heap of wit. 'Poets, like painters, thus unskiH'd to trace The naked nature and 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... | |
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Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and... 
