 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 406 halaman
...nothing 's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus unflcill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, z95 And hide with ornaments their want of art. '. ' . True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 halaman
...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, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, Wkat oft was thought,... | |
 | 1786 - 636 halaman
...AJuftly-a.lmired poet of our own times, fpeaking in reference to his «rt, tells us, that . Тпзе wit is nature to advantage drefs'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er fowell exprcfs d. • The fame, it is prefumed, may be faid of alrncit every kind of wilting. Europe... | |
 | Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden - 1788 - 376 halaman
...jujl or fit i One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters r thus, unskilTd to trate The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry fart, And hid» with ornaments their want of artTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dtefs'd, What oft war... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 halaman
...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, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True f wit i' nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 halaman
...nothing's juft or fit ; Ont 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 drcfs'd ; What oft was thought,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 halaman
...nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unlkill'd eir happinefs ; But mutual wants this hjppinufs incrcafe ; AJ1 nature's diiT'rence ke- And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drcfs'd ; What oft was thought,... | |
 | 1794 - 524 halaman
...principles, if it is obliged to regard the negligences and defecb of great writers with filent revjrence. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er ib well exprcfs'd ; Something, whole truth convinc'il at fight we nnd, That give us back the \mi¡:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 halaman
...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'... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 halaman
...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... | |
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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... 
