 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 - Pàgina 56per Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pàgines
...nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap nf wit. Poets, ¡ike painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels euvcr cv'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit U Nature to advantage dress'd... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pàgines
...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 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 Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pàgines
...where nothing's justor fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit Poeti like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, With...part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True » wit is nature to advantage dresa'd, I What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd [ Something,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pàgines
...wit. Poeti like painters, thus nnskill'd to trace The naked nature, and the living grace, Withhold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True 1 wit is nature to advantage dress'd, < What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pàgines
...nothing's just or £f, 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, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pàgines
...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 living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide w1th ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was... | |
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