 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...confine, And glitt'ring thoughts ftruck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets...ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True * wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...for the cxcrcife points and of this quality, contents '.'. Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets...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... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 295 Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb well exprefs'd... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unlkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perifh through excefs of blood. Others... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. -Poets, like painters, thus un&ill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perifh through excefs of blood. Others... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...in drefs or in language, ihows a mean or corrupted tafte : •_ Poets, like painters, thus unfldll'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, ;...'...ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property recommends a machine more than its fimplicity ;... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace ** The naked nature and the living grace,...ev'ry part, " And hide with ornaments their want of art.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes the nature of the true fpecies of wit. C( True Wit... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace " The naked nature and the living grace,...ev'ry part, *' And hide with ornaments their want of art." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes the nature of the true fpecies of wit. " True Wit is... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...290 Pleas'd with a work where nothuig'sjust or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Pcets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...or fit j One glaring Ghaos and wild teap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace 29$ The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and...ev'ry part, And hide with Ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ;... | |
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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... 
