...the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. 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...

...your sentences in such a manner. When reading Pope, you fully agree with him when he says:— " Trne wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er eo well expressed ; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives ue hack the image...

...of the sentiments expressed, I may answer him still from the same poem in equally well-known words : True wit is nature to advantage dressed — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — (1. 29).) This does not prove that Pope was a great thinker or a great |joet nt...

...the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. 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...

...first couplet given below is fuller, and therefore better, than that of the second : — 1. " Trne wit Is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." 2. " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er...

...in the poem, Mr. Elwin, if he had understood his author better, might have bethought himself that— True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. It may be granted that the thoughts in the Essay are seldom new; how could they be...

...are commonplace. As he says himself in a couplet which Mr. Courthope is very fond of quoting,— ' True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' To some extent this might, no doubt, be said of all great poets. They do not so much...

...as " A little learning is a dangerous thing "; " For fools rush in where angels fear to tread " ; " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed. What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " For each ill author is as bad a friend." In all of these we notice that terseness...

...dealing with the lofty abstract elements of the art. His wit answers to the definition of Pope : it is " Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." 8. Its combinations are, however, wonderful. Quick, subtle, and varied, ever suggesting...

...such that none hearing, can ever forget. What can be more perfect in its degree than this definition ? True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. At one time the sting would appear to have been the thing chiefly studied. Many of...