 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
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...a deficiency of skill in the higher departments of his art. " Poets, like painters, when 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." lishment. His characters are lay figures, on... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...a deficiency of skill in the higher departments of his art. " Poets, like painters, when 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." In fact it cannot be denied, that resplendent... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...a deficiency of skill in the higher departments of his art. " Poets, like painters, when 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." In fact it cannot be denied, that resplendent... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide wilh ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft' was thought, but... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art, True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...corrupted taste: Poets, like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, Wiih gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. Pope's Essay on Criticism, No single property recommends a machine more than its sim plicity; not solely... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 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...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 cxpress'd ; Something,... | |
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