Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, what oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest.”
- Source
- An Essay on Criticism
- Date
- 1711
Meaning of “True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, what…”
Pope defines memorable writing as clear expression that gives familiar thought a form readers immediately recognize.
Where does it come from?
An Essay on Criticism; original eighteenth-century spelling is substantially retained.
