 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 - Pagina 56door Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pagina’s
...nothing's juft or fit, One glaring choas ami 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, 29? Arid hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pagina’s
...line } 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfkill'd to trace The...living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 395 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd } What oft was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pagina’s
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unfldll'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 was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pagina’s
...every line ; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. | Poets like painters, thus unfkill'd to trace ; The...and the living grace:, With gold and jewels cover every part, 295 And hide with ornamenta their want of art. True Wit is Nattrre to advantage drcfs'd,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pagina’s
...nothing's juft or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thirs, unfkiil'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide wilh ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage drcfs'd ; What oft wasthought.but... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pagina’s
...line ; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's juft or fit j One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pagina’s
...nothing's jufl or fit ; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unikill'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 was... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, \Vith gold and jewels cover ev'ry 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'dj Something, whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagina’s
...nothing's just or fit. One glaring chaus and wild heap of wit. 'Poets, like painters, thus unskiH'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 - 1808 - 334 pagina’s
...nothing's just or fit,. One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus nnskill'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... | |
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