 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 pages
...simplicity. I. 296,' And hide . . . art. Elwin compares Cowley's Ode on Wit, 11. 33-6, " Yet, 'tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shows more...ill appear : Rather than all things wit, let none appear." II. 297, 8, true wit . . . expressed. To this definition of wit, in its ordinary modern sense,... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 412 pages
...vi. 3. 71. 1. 9. Quintilian, vi. 3. a. 1. 27. Quintilian, vi. 3. 13. 1. 32. Mr. Cowley. ' Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shows more...; Rather than all things Wit, let none be there.' (Ode— Of Wit.) P. 140, 1. 17. the Liar, ie Corneille's Dorante. The Chances, Wit without Money, by... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 420 pages
...vi. 3. 71. I. 9. Quintilian, vi. 3. 2. 1. 27. Quintilian, vi. 3. 13. 1. 32. Mr. Cowley. ' Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part ; That shows more...; Rather than all things Wit, let none be there.' (Ode— Of Wit.) P. 140, I. 17. the Liar, \. e. Corneille's Dorante. The Chances, Wit urithout Money,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 522 pages
...Theban wall. Such miracles are ceas'd ; and now we see No towns or houses rais'd by poetry. Yet 'tis not to adorn, and gild each part ; That shows more...let none be there. Several lights will not be seen. II there be nothing else between. Men doubt, because they stand so thick i' th' sky, If those be stars... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 510 pages
...Cowley afterwards, in his " Ode on Wit," writes : Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part; That shews more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill...appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. WITTY QUOTATIONS. It was Dean Swift, who, when a lady had thrown down a Cremona fiddle with a frisk... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit: Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shows more cost...Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear; Rather than all thing< wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be seen, If there be nothing else between. Men... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1842 - 612 pages
...bushel, but on a candlestick." Dryden gives us good advice on this subject : Jewels at nose and mouth but ill appear — Rather than all things, wit let none be there; Men doubt, because so thick they lie, If those be stars that paint the Galaxy. Nothing so delightful... | |
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