...are. DRYDEN. True wit is nature to advantage drest, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. POPE. Since joy of sense can't rise to reason's taste, In subtle sophistry's laborious forgo Wit hammers...

...rhyme of the first couplet given below is fuller, and therefore better, than that of the second:— 1. "True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.*" 2. "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er...

...instruction, "Men must be taught as if you taught them not." There is the celebrated definition of wit, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed." Do you want to illustrate the importance of early educaeation ? you observe "Just...

...art. True wit is Nature to advantage dress' d, » What 6ft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, 80 modest plainness sets off sprightly wit ; For works...

...the right of the epigrammatic wit, whose object is expression, to avail himself of common ideas. " True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." It seems, says Pope, in a letter to Walsh, not so much the perfection of sense to...

...first couplet given below is fuller, and therefore better, than that of the second : — 1. " Trne wit Is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.* 2. " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er...

...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works...

...From lovers in despair fine things to force, True wit is nature to advantage dressed, (23) What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed ; Something...we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 100 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness seta of sprightly wit ; For works...

...he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be. SUCKLING. Epilogue to The Goblins. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Part ii. Line 97. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of...

...Advantage drest. What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest, Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find. That gives us back the Image of our Mind — (From: An Essay on Criticism, 1711, I, 297-300)16 It was Wit, as originality (and brevity) of expression,...