 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art1. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1869 - 512 pages
...just or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to traca 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...nothing's just or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, 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. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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 gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...where nothing's just or One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd usands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight • So abject, mean, and every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...nothing's just or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus 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. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With golds and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; "Don Quixote de la Mancha. Pope alludes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 drest, What eft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest, Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...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 Gold and Jewels cover ev'ry Part, And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art. Critics who value style more than sense are pictured as... | |
 | Laura Brown - English literature - 1993 - 220 pages
...Wit" make the by now familiar transition from dress to nakedness: 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 drest, What oft was Thought,... | |
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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... 
