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Quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
“True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;”
An Essay on Criticism, Part II, lines 297-298 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
Pope's definition of true wit.
Citation: "True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;" — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, lines 297-298 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id an-essay-on-criticism-q2)
