 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 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... | |
 | English poetry - 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... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1722 - 364 pages
...drefs't, of What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exprefs't j Something, whofe Truth convinced at fight we find. That gives us back the Image of our Mind. As Shades more fweetly recommend the Light : So modeft Plainnefs fet's-of fprightly Wit. For Works may have more Wit... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1722 - 360 pages
...drefs't, What oft' was thought, but ne'er fo well exfrefs't 5 Something, whofe Truth convinc 'd at fight we find. That gives us back the Image of our Mind. As Shades more fweetly recommend the Light : So modeft Plainnefs fet's-off fprightly Wit. For Works may have more... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 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... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - Conquest, Right of - 1783 - 78 pages
...laying before them What oft vf as thought , but ne' erfo well expreß , 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden - 1788 - 376 pages
...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... | |
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Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 
