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" True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. "
The Annals of Yorkshire from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 189
by Henry Schroder - 1852
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D...

Sir William Forbes - Medicine - 1806 - 578 pages
...thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope,— " True wit.1 is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft. was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the " Rowleyan...
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including ..., Volume 2

Sir William Forbes - Authors, Scottish - 1807 - 412 pages
...same thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the ' Rowleyan...
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late ..., Volume 2

Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
...same thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — " True wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the ' Rowleyan...
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including ..., Volume 1

Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - College teachers - 1807 - 572 pages
...thought in different language will disgust or delight us. So just is the axiom of Pope, — 9 *Tnie wit,* is nature to advantage dressed ; " What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " I believe I mentioned in a former letter, that I had seen Bryant on the " Rowleyan...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation. The Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...pride." " Trust not thyself — thy own defects to know Make use of every friend, and every foe." " True wit is nature to advantage dressed — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all."...
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...source in the vulgar opinion, with respect to style and the very nature of language. The poet says, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The critic cavils at this, and says, it is to degrade wit thus to define it, making...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...verbal critic lays, For not to know some trifles is a praise. [From An Essay on Criticism.] WIT. TKUE wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed : Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volume 2

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 pages
...the modern sense of ludicrous fancy, I cannot tell. It must have been after Pope's definition — ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' By the way, was there ever a stronger instance than this of the second verse of a...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 17

Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...closely akin—one whose originality of style is constantly reminding us of that fine saying of Pope— " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed;" one, in short, who thinks with the common sense of mankind, and writes with a power...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volume 1

Henry Fielding - 1836 - 454 pages
...continue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author ; for, as Mr. Pope tells us, — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed : What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The same animal which hath the honour to have some Eart of his ftesh eaten at the...
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