 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 страници
...: 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 colors spreads on every place ; The face... | |
 | 1835 - 284 страници
...South of France. READING makes a full writing an exact man. — man, conversation a ready man, BACON. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. PRIDE is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages : and envy feels not its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 страници
...is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares...without distinction gay : But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon : It gilds all objects, but it alters... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 страници
...dress : Their praise is still, — the style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content. urch or state ; Now for prerogative, and now for laws ; Effects unhappy ! from a noble cause. Ti 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 страници
...they humbly take upon content. Wordsare like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of seuse eks to know the curse of such a king : ji Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head >' O'er all his wid every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 страници
...»ther angular figure, it would follow that one to nst a pan woeld be drowned, and another be Th» face of nature we no more survey. All glares alike, without distinction gay. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy showery pritm. Thornton. If... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 360 страници
...never mind him ; never speak till you've something to say, and then say only what you have to say. ' Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, * Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found.' " Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,... | |
 | 1855 - 664 страници
...superficial as they are ex-, tensive. Their knowledge will be more apt to make them wordy than wise; and, " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, . Much fruit of sense is rarely found." They seem to act upon the principle that "knowledge is power," but not in the sense... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 страници
...understood by those thing я which are made, in outward creation ; even [ his eternal power and Corf-head. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,...False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, | Its gaudy colors spreads-on ev'ry place ; i The face of Nature — we no more survey ; All glares alike, without... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, George Herbert, Richard Baxter, George Campbell - 1845 - 476 страници
...How did you like it? 1 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All...without distinction gay, But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters... | |
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Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
