 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...nothing's juft 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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True * wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was... | |
 | David Fordyce - Education - 1745 - 474 pages
...Daubers of Nature, than a favourite Poet is to blame thofe Pretenders to Wit, who, - — ^-unskilled to trace, *The naked Nature and the living Grace, With Gold and Jewels cover every Part, And hide "with Ornaments their Want of Art. But after all, Madam, would you have Conver-.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...f<. ft '^ chikuufelf with Kiitifr wsi&k ;» 4 i-_fr j / vr^|V|H Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 2 9 5 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 295 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 is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -Poets, like painters, thus un&ill'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. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and 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, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...in drefs or in language, ihows a mean or corrupted tafte : •_ Poets, like painters, thus unfldll'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. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property recommends... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " 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.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " 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." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...or fit } One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unlkill'd to trace Tjie naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels...their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefe'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight... | |
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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... 
