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 - 1860 - 632 pages
...nothing's just or lit; 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...nothing's just or fit, One glaring citaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thns unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, 95 And bide with ornaments (22) their want of art. 85. Intellect; love of conceits. is... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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 express'd ; Something,... | |
| 1866 - 328 pages
...nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, Eke 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... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 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 - 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 Gold and Jewels cover ev'ry Part, 295 And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art. True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What eft was... | |
| 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...ev'ry Part, And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art. Critics who value style more than sense are pictured as praising Books, as Women Men, for Dress. 306... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 470 pages
...hills, and Alps on Alps arise." After likening the conceited poet to unskilled painters, who — " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art." He warns the poet of the pernicious vice of using inflated and pretentious words, and attempting to... | |
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