 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - Počet stránok 468
...nothing's juft 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 with Ornaments their want of art. True * wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft' was... | |
 | David Fordyce - 1745 - Počet stránok 472
...Daubers of Nature, than a favourite Poet is to blame thofe Pretenders to Wit, who, - — ^-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. But after all, Madam, would you have Conver-.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - Počet stránok 398
...f<. ft '^ chikuufelf with Kiitifr wsi&k ;» 4 i-_fr j / vr^|V|H Poets like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 2 9 5 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - Počet stránok 264
...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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft... | |
 | Art - 1762 - Počet stránok 290
...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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - Počet stránok 292
...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 gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - Počet stránok 534
...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, ;...' With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. . Pope's Effay on criticifm. No fmgle property recommends... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Počet stránok 592
...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, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, " And hide with ornaments their want of art.'* Having ridiculed the faJfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Počet stránok 600
...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, " With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, *' And hide with ornaments their want of art." Having ridiculed the falfe, he defcribes the nature... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - Počet stránok 524
...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...their want of art/ True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'rf ; Something whose truth, convinc'd at... | |
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Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 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... 
