 tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shows more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there, Several lights will not be seen, If there be nothing else between. Men donbt, because they stand...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 49edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Cornelius Tacitus - Rome - 1854 - 524 pages
...placed in every part, lest the other members should lose their function. (Ibid.) As Cowley says, — "Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there." C. 23.] CONCERNING ORATORY. 423 happily pointed : he has nothing, in fine, you would wish to1 make... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...Theban wall. Such miracles are ceased ; and now we see No towns or houses raised by poetry. Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shows more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips hut ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there.* Several lights will not be seen, If... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...before,) it is natural that ho be the first tickled at it. There is such a thing as excess of wit. " Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let nono be there." " Several lights will not be seen, If there he nothing else between." Some writers... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - Poetry - 1862 - 164 pages
...with rapture at a feast ; 'Tis not to force some lifeless verses meet With their five gouty feet ; Tis not to adorn and gild each part That shows more cost than art ; Tis not when two like words make up one noise, (Jests for Dutch men and English boys), In which,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1864 - 460 pages
...which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : — " Tet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shews more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill...things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not he seen, If there be nothing else between. Men doubt, because they stand so thick i' th' sky, If those... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...minutely for their speaker's situation ; at other times they want congruity with his character : — " Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear, Rather than all things wit let none be there." But it is not so with those wo have quoted — in our text at least. Those two or throe short ones... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...minutely for their speaker's situaation ; at other times they want congruity with his character : — " Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear, Rather than all things wit let none be there. " But it is not so with those we have quoted — in our text at least. Those two or three short ones... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...Ode on Wit: Vet 'tis not to adorn, and ^ild each part ; That shows more cost than art. Jewels at noaO and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. 3 Naturam intneamur, hanc sequamur : id facillinie accipinnt animi quod agnoscunt. Quint, lib. 8, c.... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 318 pages
...sight of ambitious pieces of word-painting, where the writer has left nothing without an ornament: "Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit let none be there." And Cowley's echo of Aristophanes rises to my lips when I listen to such a concert of the birds as... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...a feast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain ; The proofs of Wit for ever must remain. 'Tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shows more cost than art. 'Tis not when two like words make up one noise, Jests for Dutch men, and English boys ; What is it,... | |
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