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" True f wit i' nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. "
Poems on Several Subjects - Page ciii
by John Ogilvie - 1769 - 162 pages
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...Naturam intueamur, hanc fyuamur ; id facilliml- accipiunt animi quod agnofcunt. Quintil. lib. 8. c. 3. Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As ihades more fweetly recommend the light, So mode ft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit :...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...Netutem innunmur, hunc frquamur; id facillime accipiunt 4nimi quid agiefcunt. Quini.il, lib. 8. c. 3. ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefsfets offfprightly wit: For...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find. That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetJy recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...of art True Wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...; which the poet illuftrates, as he didthe weȣ, by ideas taken from the art of Painting. NOTES. Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly wit....
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...True -f- wit is nature to advantage drefs'd, 300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find* That gives us back the image of our mind. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, Somodeft plainnefs fets off Iprightly wit: 305...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...vifions in the fancy." But that great Philofopher, in feparating Wit from Judgment, as he does in this 2 Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit....
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Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...art. True wit is Nature to advantage drefs'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly wit....
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Poems on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

John Ogilvie - Classical poetry - 1769 - 342 pages
...perfons, who are introduced in a poem, muft on all occafions be diftinguifhed by peculiar characters ; and the manners attributed to each of them ought to...Something « Something whofe truth convinc'd at fight we .fend, That gives us back the image of the mind. A LITTLE reflection will enable us to difcover the...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...of art. True Wit is Nature to advantage drefe'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. jop As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit....
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