 | 1891 - 556 strani
...can give it; sometimes wine in. spires The lucky flash, and madness rarely fails. CHARACTERISTICS op. True wit is nature to advantage drest, What oft was...but ne'er so well exprest, Something whose truth, oonvinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. , CONTEMPTIBLE. Wit is the most... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 strani
...art1. 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 shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. -For works... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 302 strani
...continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr Pope tells us — '• True wit is nature to advantage drest ; ^' What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest." The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 322 strani
...continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr Pope tells us — " True wit is nature to advantage drest ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest." The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke,... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 strani
...continues to make explicit his positive principles, always relating them to the norm of 'nature'. Thus: True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft was...we find, That gives us back the Image of our Mind. (ll. 297-300) 'True wit' here embraces the whole creative activity of the poet, which strikes the reader... | |
 | J. Paul Hunter - 1990 - 452 strani
...whole, to continue the same Metaphor, consists in the Cookery of the Author; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft' was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. (Ii, 32-33) One need not stop to enumerate the meanings of "drest" here to note Fielding's sleight-of-hand,... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 1991 - 226 strani
...advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed: Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind. ("Essay on Criticism." 11, 97-100) This is not a reconce penalization of Nature but an improved restatement... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 strani
...expressions of the same thought. This, precisely, is what Alexander Pope summarized in the following lines: True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest. What oft was...we find. That gives us back the Image of our Mind — (From: An Essay on Criticism, 1711, I, 297-300)16 It was Wit, as originality (and brevity) of expression,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced on 10 By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: EnLoPo; He (Fr. II) 38 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 strani
...famous lines on wit, when he writes True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest What oft was Thought hut ne'er so well Exprest, Something, whose Truth convinc'd...we find That gives us back the image of our Mind. (297-300) In these lines, there is a fresh attempt to integrate human beings, nature and language;... | |
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Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, That gives us back the Image of our Mind... 
