 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 - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...this quality, contents himfelf with Nicety, which is a bufying one's felf about points and fyllables. 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 was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...Nicety, which is a bufying one's felf about points and fyllables. Poets, like painters, thus, unflull'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... | |
 | 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 for... | |
 | 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 for... | |
 | 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 ; not... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...attention to conceit and G 3 wit, wit, which lie ridicules by a fimile drawn from, a fiftcr art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace **...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 is Nature... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...attention to conceit and G a ' wit, wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace " The...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 Nature... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...wit, which he ridicules by a fimile drawn from a fifter art. " Poets, like painters, thus, unfldll'd to trace " The naked nature and the living grace,...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 Native... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...or fit } One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unlkill'd to trace Tjie 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 drefe'd, What oft was... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...nothuig'sjust or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Pcets, 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... | |
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