 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...own. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 454 pages
...all kinds too ; not merely that power of language which Pope chooses to denominate wit — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed " — but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and pleasant conceits.... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...own. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1886 - 428 pages
...pithy lines and couplets have obtained a permanent place in literature. Thus we have : — " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " Good-nature and good-sense must ever join. To err is human, to forgive divine."... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 258 pages
...You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense." Legal Humor WER Byrne "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." The Ladies John W. Davis "Time will prove, no doors nor locks, Can keep them from... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...language in which it should be clothed. He acted strictly upon his own canon of criticism :— ' True wit is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' And he attained to such a command of expression, his skill in the use of verbal felicities... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...pithy lines and couplets have obtained a permanent place in literature. Thus we have : — " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " Good-nature and good-sense must ever join. To err is human, to forgive divine."... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...pithy lines and couplets have obtained a permanent place in literature. Thus we have :— '* True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " Good-nature and good-sense must ever join. To err is human, to forgive divine."... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...sound, while the consonants that precede these vowels are different, as in the following: "True art is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." An admissible rhyme is one in which the closing vowels, while not the same, closely... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1887 - 300 pages
...which there is a correspondence of sound in the last syllables of two or more lines ; as, " True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expmsW." 748. Blank Verse is metrical language without rhyme ; as, " Shall we serve Heaven With... | |
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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. 
