 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...unchanging sun, 3i5 Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears...as more suitable. A vile conceit, in pompous words cxpress'd, 333 Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For 1liff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...unchanging sun, 21s Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears...suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, 320 Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears...as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express' d Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : F.or diff'rent styles with dirFrent subjects sort,... | |
 | John Mason - 1807 - 274 pages
...your concluding thoughts the most memorable %. See more on this subject, part II. c. 4. CHAP. II. ' * Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable. A low conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in royal purple dress'd; For different styles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...; But true expression, like the' unchanging sun, 1 Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; > It gilds all objects, but it alters none. J Expression is the dress of thonght, and still Appears more decent as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words express'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...sun, 1J5) Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; . I It gilds all ohjects, hut it alters none. ) Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitahle. A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, 120 Some hy old words to fame have made pretence,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; f It gildA-all objects, but it alters none. 3 cts, bu Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable: A vile conceit in potnpous words express'd, Is tike a clown in regal purple dress'd: For different styles with different... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...and he looked no farther : as if that rule of common sense had been a discovery of yesterday — " Expression is the dress of thought, and still " Appears more decent, as more suitable." Pope, Essay on Crit. ver. 318. PACE 148. Night, and her ugly subjects, tkou daft fright. " Nigbt, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; li gilds all objects, but it alters none. Kxpression ight reversion in the sky For those who greatly thick, « bravely *2S W ; SCRIPTIVE, &c. 213 •\ vile conceit, in pompous words exp cet, s like a clown iu regal purple drest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...unchanging Sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it niters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears...conceit in pompous words express'-d, Is like a clown in resjal purple dress'd ; For different styles with difPrent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs, with country,... | |
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable. 
