...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay: But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds...as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, 320 Is like a clown in regal purple dressed: For different styles with different subjects...

...talked between the Rooms — Until the Moss had reached our lips — And covered up — our names — Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears...as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, Is like a clown in regal purple dressed; For different styles with different subjects sort,...

...verbal dress is caught in the familiar couplets of Pope's enshrinement of the accepted literary lore. Expression is the Dress of Thought, and still Appears...as more suitable; A vile Conceit in pompous Words exprest, Is like a Clown in regal Purple drest.27 In their full import, propriety and elegance are...

...oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 297 2:98 Expression is the dress of thought, and still / Appears...suitable; / A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, / Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd: / For diff 'rent styles with diff 'rent subjects sort, /...

...more survey, All glares alike without distinction gay: But true Expression, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. (1711 £ 1978: 73) Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews exploits, for comic effect, the contrast between...

...This light is more complex than, for instance, Pope's "unchanging Sun" (in An Essay on Criticism) that "Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, / It gilds all Objects, but alters none" (Pope 1969, 46). While both poets say that heavenly illumination beautifies the world,...