"True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, / What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest; / Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, / That gives us back the Image of our Mind."
An Essay on Criticism
Over 30 entries in ESTC. (1711, 1713, 1714, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1722, 1728, 1736, 1737, 1741, 1744, 1745, 1749, 1751, 1754, 1758, 1765, 1770, 1774, 1777, 1782, 1796).<br>
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<u>An Essay on Criticism.</u> (London: Printed for W. Lewis, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N31901">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tt4NAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809177.0001.000">Link to 2nd edition in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Originally searching through Stanford's HDIS installation of the Chadwyck-Healey database (which indexes a text from the 1736 <u>Works</u>. Some text drawn from ECCO-TCP edition.