 As shades more sweetly recommend the light. So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.  The Projector: A Periodical Paper - 120 페이지저자: Alexander Chalmers - 1815전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 페이지
...shades more sweetly recommend the light, ' So modest plainness sets off' sprightly wit. ' For works may have more wit than does them good, ' As bodies perish through excess of blood." Essay on Criticism., \. 300. SECTION X. . OF THE EXORDIUM. WIT pleases in an epigram or' a song, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 페이지
...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 186 페이지
...As shades more sweetly recommend the light ; So modest plainness sets off sprightly ivit. For works may have more wit than does them good ; As bodies perish through excess of blood. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 69 C. What do you mean by painting ? I never heard that term applied to rhetoric.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 184 페이지
...As shades more sweetly recommend the light ; So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does them good ; As bodies perish through excess oi blood. 69 C. What do you mean by painting ? 1 never heard that term applied to rhetoric. A. To*... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 420 페이지
...of much consequence to wish that it had been thicker. THE PROJECTOR. N° 78. " PEOPLE may have tnore wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood." • POPE. December 1807. the mercantile world takes alarm at the impediments by which the belligerent powers are about to prevent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 페이지
...people ! " M. MASON. Mr. Pope introduced this simile in the Essay on Criticism, v. 303 : " For works may have more wit than does them good, " As bodies perish through excess of blood." Ascham has a thought very similar to Pope's : " Twenty to one, offend more, in writing to much, then... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 페이지
...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: Forworks may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 페이지
...mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud: For we were n,nVd upo Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 페이지
...As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good. As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care exprese, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 페이지
...As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise... | |
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