...delicious story of a summer's journey abroad gives proof after proof of the truth of Pope's couplet, True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Hundreds of people have been over the same ground that the Autocrat covered, and hundreds...

...the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.1 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...

...recommending any abrupt departure from the common ideal, but by changing its scope and definition — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed" — a maxim which in itself points to a complete revolution in criticism. For it signifies...

...recommending any abrupt departure from the common ideal, but by changing its scope and definition — " True wit is Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought but ne'er BO well expressed" — a maxim which in itself points to a complete revolution in criticism. For it...

...AND OCCURRENCES AND PRESENTING THEM IN A LAUGHABLE MANNER, CHIEFLY DEPKNDING ON QUICKNESS OF FANCY. " True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er BO well expressed." A face very wide in the upper portion, and tapering downwards Wee an inverted pear...

...but we pause when we are asked to jump from this admission to the conclusion that Pope's lines — True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed — were a formal renunciation not merely of the conceits of the poetry of the seventeenth...

...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...

...but the meter is not. Pope's parallel ideas proceed very differently — in metrically matched lines: True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed (An Eaayan Criticism. 11.297-98) These ways of accommodating the rhetorical balance...

...incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a coiner. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) English poet, critic, essayist True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people...

...of meanings which could be conveyed by other means. Such a conception is evident in Pope's formula 'True Wit is Nature to advantage dressed/ What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.' Arnold's essay 'Literature and Dogma' places a different burden on imaginative literature...