 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 314 sider
...pleafant pic" tures and agreeable viilons in the fancy." But that great Something, whofe truth convinc'dat fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly wit. For works... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 sider
...advantage drefe'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. jop As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit. VER. 297.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 sider
...drefs'd, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; 30$ Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind: As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets offfprightly Wit : For works may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 sider
...advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'cl at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As VARIATION. Ver. z98. Ed. i. What oft was thought, but ne'er before exprefs'd. As fhades more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 sider
...advantage drefs'd, Wkat oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As fhades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit j For works may... | |
 | Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden - 1788 - 376 sider
...dtefs'd, What oft war thought, but ne'er fo wel exfrefs'd; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight wt find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades mort fwtetly recommend the light,}, So modejl plainnefs fets off fprightJy wit. For works may have... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 sider
...advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As fLades more fweetly recommend the light, So modeft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit : For works may... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 sider
...advantage drefs'd, What eft was thought, but ne'er fo well eipfefs'd ; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As (bodes more fweetly recommend the light, So ••.тЛИ plainnefs fets off fprightly wit ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1796 - 374 sider
...advantage drefs'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs'd; Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. The poet, in cenfuring the narrow and partial taftes of fome critics, begins with that for conceit,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 sider
...judicioufly tranfpofed to a more efficient term, forrepofe. Ver. 299. Something, whofe truth, convinc'd at fight, we find ; That gives us back the image of our mind. '-' In the character of his Elegy, I rejoice to concur with *l the common reader : for by the common... | |
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Something, whose truth convinced 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 have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through... 
