True wit is nature to advantage dressed
- DMI number:
- 30962
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed
- Last Line:
- True wit is everlasting like the sun
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Partial extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Partial extract w. variants from An essay on poetry. Chalmers (1810) X: 91-94.
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Last Line:
- Succeed where great Torquato and our greater Spenser fail
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Last Line:
- Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- Wit
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
Buckingham. Essay on poetry.
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