 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.  The Adventurer - Seite 1071823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'rf ; Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. yxi As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1783 - 78 Seiten
...laying before them What oft vf as thought , but ne' erfo well expreß , Something wbofe truth convine' d at Sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. Such is the philofophy of HOMER , HESIOD , VIRGIL , HORACE , JUVENAL and others of the tunefull clafs... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 430 Seiten
...of truth, nor did they reflect any- idea of his own; they were not " Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S Eitay OH Crit. with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic of wit; and if they contained... | |
 | 1803 - 254 Seiten
...truth, nor did they reflect any idea of his own — they were not " Something whose trath convinc'd at sight we find, " That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE. With respect to John therefore they had no characteristic of wit ; and if they contained knowledge,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 Seiten
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd , Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'dj Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets ofl" sprightly wit. For works... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 Seiten
...advantage drest, '"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest ; "'Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, ' That gives us back the image of our mind. ' As shades more sweetly recommend the light, ' So modest plainness sets off' sprightly wit. ' For... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...truth convinc'd at sight we find, "That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S Mitay w Cril. •with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic...deliberation : ' But though curiosity should be principally dir reeted to useful purposes, yet it should not always. be repressed or diverted, when the use is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...truth convihc'd at sfgtit fre find, "That gives us back the image of our mind." POPE'S £isay ai Crii. with respect to John, therefore they had no characteristic...knowledge which John had no wish to acquire: the old gentlerfian, hoWever, proceeded thus with great deliberation : ' But though curiosity should be principally... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 Seiten
...advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works may... | |
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