 | Gildemeister - 1868 - 808 pages
...survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay: But true expression, like th'unchanging sun Clearsand improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects,...suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd Is like a clown in regal purple drest. For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort As several... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...without distinction gay :— 4 ARGUMENT -SOPHISTRY. 55 But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds...suitable ; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...altogether, in need of a detailed telling. On Being Qua Being, Protometaphysics, and Epistemic Modality "Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable." Pope The topic of being qua being, in one fashion or another, has been at the very center of metaphysical... | |
 | Hugh Hood - Literary Collections - 1991 - 132 pages
...it does the almost instantaneous transmission of our lightest thoughts. I wouldn't bet money on it. Expression is the dress of thought and still Appears more decent as more suitable. Pope As our grammar and syntax change form, our thoughts and our capacity to verbalize them change,... | |
 | Laura Brown - English literature - 1993 - 220 pages
...passage on "diffrent Styles" (322), for example, is based on a sustained analogy to dress and fashion: Expression is the Dress of Thought, and still Appears...as more suitable', A vile Conceit in pompous Words exprest, Is like a Clown in regal Purple drest .... In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;... | |
 | Paul-Gabriel Boucé - English literature - 1993 - 212 pages
...goes on to state the ideal of "true Expression" : ... But true Expression, like th'unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all Objects, but it allers none. Expression is the Dress of Thought. . . and so on to the remarks about "suitable" styles... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...But true Expressinn, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gildi all Objects, but it alters none. Expression is the Dress of Thought . . . and so on to the remarks about 'suitable' styles which have already been noted. Pope's 'nakedness' may... | |
 | Irma S. Lustig - Literary Criticism - 308 pages
...the rich and splendid dress of a person of rank" (lectures 1: 285). Blair is, I think, echoing Pope: "Expression is the Dress of Thought, and still / Appears more decent as more suitable (An Essay on Criticism, 11. 318-19)." Such statements imply three closely related judgments of low... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...dressing of nature by gardening with that done by writing. 'True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest' and 'Expression is the Dress of Thought, and still / Appears more decent as more suitable' (Pope, vol. i, pp.272, 274; lines 297, 318 19). 35 Propriety in writing contains, however, not only... | |
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Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters... 
