 Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 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 the...  Poems on Several Occasions - Page 56by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...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'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...line } 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 395 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd } What oft was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfldll'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...every line ; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. | Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace ; The...and the living grace:, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornamenta their want of art. True Wit is Nattrre to advantage drcfs'd,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thirs, unfkiil'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide wilh ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drcfs'd ; What oft wasthought.but... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...line ; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit j One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace > The...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; * What oft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...nothing's jufl or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unikill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'dj Something, whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...nothing's just or fit. One glaring chaus and wild heap of wit. 'Poets, like painters, thus unskiH'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...nothing's just or fit,. One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus nnskill'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... | |
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