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Poems - Page 23
by Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise...style is excellent: The sense they humbly take upon content.2 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...value books, as women men, for drefs ; Their praife is ftill — the ftyle is excellent ; The fenfe they humbly take upon content. Words are like- leaves ; and where they moft abound; Much fruit of fenfe beneath is rarely found :. Falfe eloquence, like the prifmatic glafs,...
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The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems ...

Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...value books, as women men, for drefs : Their praife is ftill— the ftyle is excellent ; The fenfe they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves, and where they moft abound, Much fruit of fenfe beneath is rarely found. Falfe t Naluram intiieamur, hanc fcquamur;...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...value books, as women men, for drcfs : Their praife is ftill — The Style is excellent ; The Senfe :AM4K MpM N . M?@ B M moft abound, Much fruit of fenfe beneath is rarely found. Falfe eloquence, like the prifmatic glafs,...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...value books, as women men, for drefs : Their prnile is ftill, — The ftyle is excellent ; The Senfe, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they moft abound, Much fruit of fcnfe beneath is rarely found. Falie eloquence, like the prifmatic glafs,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...value books, as women men, for drefs : Their praife is Hill — the ftyle is excellent : The fujfe, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they moft abound, Much fruit of fenfe beneath is rarely found. 310 Falfe eloquence, like the prifmatic glafs,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...value books as women men, for drd's : Their praile is ftiil — the Iryle is excellent ; The fenfe they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves, and where they moft abound, Much fruit of Cents beneath is rarely found. 3 Io Falft eloquence, like the prif'matic...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...draw the reader to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with the rhythmus of the verse. Their praise is still, the style is excellent : The sense they humbly take upon content. Pope. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided, as the most childish and ridiculous...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...thought, but ne'er so well express'd , Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As shades more...found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike,...
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A Satirical View of London; Or, A Descriptive Sketch of the English ...

John Corry - London (England) - 1804 - 230 pages
...sometimes pleasing and sometimes tiresome to his auditory. Our most sensible poet observes, that " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." This is applicable to the Irish orator ; but the true cause of his volubility, is the sprightliness...
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