 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - Страниц: 630
...places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. There is a certain majesty in simplicity, which is far... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - Страниц: 634
...places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. There is a certain majesty in simplicity, which is far... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 450
...not confidering that nature loves truth fo well, that it hardly ever admits of flouriihing. Confoit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needlefs, but impairs what it would improve. There is a certain majefty in fimplicity, which is far above-all the quaintnefs of wit... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Страниц: 390
...places; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. — Pope. CXXXIV. A man who has been brought up among... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Страниц: 354
...places; not considering that nature 'loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.^ Pope. cxxxrv. A man who has been brought up amongbooks,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 822
...places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admiU of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Id. Impetuous sprean The stream and smoaking, flourished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Страниц: 546
...places, not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. There is a certain majesty in simplicity, which is far... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - Страниц: 442
...griefs. — Lavater. CONCEIT. — Nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. — Pope. CONCEIT AND CONFIDENCE. — Conceit and confidence... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 570
...of their own company, as those Coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. ©OltWt — Pope. CONCEIT is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. . __ Shakspeare. CONCEIT in weakest bodies strongest works.... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 374
...places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. — Pope. CXXXIV. A man who has been brought up among... | |
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People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what... 
