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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar - Page 40
by Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 275 pages
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...facilliml- accipiunt animi quod agnofcunt. Quintil. lib. 8. c. 3. Something, whofe truth convinc'd at fight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As ihades more fweetly recommend the light, So mode ft plainnefs fets off fprightly wit : For works may...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

1720 - 302 pages
...accipiunt 4nimi quid agiefcunt. Quini.il, lib. 8. c. 3. ; 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 plainnefsfets offfprightly wit: For works may have...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...300 What oft was thought, but ne'er fb 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, Somodeft plainnefs fets off Iprightly wit: 305 For works may...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...art/ True wit is Nature to 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...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...
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An Essay on the Right of Conquest..

Allan Ramsay - 1783 - 78 pages
...laying before them What oft vf as thought , but ne' erfo well expreƟ , 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...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...for, is his being constantly the same. He is never what we call hum-drum ; never unwilling to begin (True wit is Nature to advantage drest ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.) [Pope's Essay on Criticism, ii. 297.] but surprising allusions, brilliant sallies of vivacity, and...
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The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems ...

Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...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...
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The British Essayists: The Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 430 pages
...not impressed with the signature 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...
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