 | John Oldmixon - 1728 - 484 pages
...has taken *' Pains to fhew that 'tis impoffible for any " Thought to be beautiful which is not juft, and " has not its Foundation in the Nature of Things : " That the Bafis of all Wit is Truth ; and that '* no Thought can be valuable, of which goad " Senfe is not the Ground-work," THE ARTS OF... | |
 | Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1729 - 252 pages
...has taken pains to u (hew, that it is impoffible for any Thought " to be beautiful which is not juft, and has not ** its Foundation in the Nature of Things: That " the Bafis of all Wit is Truth ; and that no " Thought can be valuable, of which good *' Senfe is not the Ground-Work. Addifon's "... | |
 | 1744 - 348 pages
...Criticks, has taken pains to ihew, that it is impoflible for any Thought to be beautiful which is not juft, and has not its Foundation in the Nature of Things : That the Bafis of all Wit is Trcth j and that no Thought can be valuable, of which good Senfe is not the Ground-work. Beileau has... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...critics, has taken pains to mew, that it is impoflible for any thought to be beautiful which is not juft, and has not its foundation in the nature of things ; that the bafis of all Wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good fenfe is not the ground-work. Boileau has endeavoured... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...has taken pains to §hew, that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good sense is not the ground-work.... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...critics, has taken pains to shew, that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good sense is not the ground-work.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...has taken pains to sliew,that it is impossible for any thought to be beaiitiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things; that the basis of all wit is truth; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good sense is not the ground-work.... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...eritics, has taken pains to show that it *is impossible for any thought to he beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good fr use is not the ground-work.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...critics, has taken pains to shew, that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things : that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good sense is not the ground-work.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...critics, has taken pains to shew, that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things : that the basis of all wit is truth; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good sense is not the ground-work.... | |
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French critics, has taken pains to show, that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable, of which good... 
