| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 páginas
...praise is still, — The style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content CRITICISM. 37 ' Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colour spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 páginas
...still — the style is excellent : The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like loaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of Nature... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...Tamerlane. Thy words, like music, every breast controul, Steal through the air, and win upon the soul. Pope. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,...Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope, EC n. 309. Oh ! speak that again ! ELOQUENCE — continued. Now with fine phrase, and foppery of tongue,... | |
| Roses - 1867 - 172 páginas
...spring. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; But, like a shadow, prove the substance true. Good nature and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...dress : Their praise is still,— The style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found: False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; Tjie face of nature... | |
| 1877 - 688 páginas
...and profound, rather than that they should be plain, simple, and intelligible, forgetting that • Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Our readers will understand what we mean if they compare some of the verbose and obscure writings published... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...: Their praise is still, — ' the style is excellent ; ' The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1867 - 200 páginas
..."he." Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as lie is pure." WORDS AND LEAVES. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. EDITOEIAL NOTICES. WE continue to receive encouraging letters from our canvassing friends. Their zeal... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 páginas
...will court yon. Say, are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men ? BEN JONSON. WORDS. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,...fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — POPE. Words are but pictures of our thoughts.— DKYDEN. His words, replete with guile, Into her heart too... | |
| Gildemeister - 1868 - 808 páginas
...1) ЖаСг[фетИф tagen фатапп foís^b« SBorte au« Pope's Essay on criticism im ©inn: Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found: False eloquence, like the prismatic glass Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place, The face of Nature... | |
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