 And value books, as women men, for 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...  Poems - Page 23by Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 pages
...GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (Conn.) PUBLISHED BT AH MALTBY & CO. No. 15.] TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1820. [VOL. I. 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 ; The face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before." Others, for Language all their care express 305 And...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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...abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. .False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...value books, as women men, for dress : ^^7- Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent ; l^ , The Sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES. Ver. 302. modest plainness"] Xenophon in Greek, and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is st'll—' the style is excellent;' The sense they humbly take...abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of Nature... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...cunning, or spleen of the disputants, rather than their knowledge of the subjects in debate. — . Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POPE. The following observations from Feltham, on curiosity in knowledge, may properly be introduced... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, ember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged br False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Ils gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Greek, and Caesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters of the beautiful simplicity here recommended. Their praise is still,— The Style is excellent ;...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; COMMENTARY. guage, and shews [from ver. 304 to 337.] that... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...Greek, and Caesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters of the beautiful simplicity here recommended. Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; COMMENTARY. guage, and shews [from ver. 304 to 337.] that'... | |
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