 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 страници
...style re6nes ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care express, And value hooks, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still —...excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. Ib. 305. Infatuates, and through labyrinths and wilds Of error, leads them by a tune entranced. While... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 страници
...following examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place. Their praise is still, the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Where the metrical accent would do violence to every ear of any refinement, the best way of obviating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 страници
...does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all then- care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise...— The style is excellent ; The sense, they humb Wordsare like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of seuse beneath is rarely found : False... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 384 страници
...the language more than the ideas, as Mr. Pope says:— " Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men for dress: Their praise...excellent;' The sense they humbly take upon content." " And next, then, I would advise you, whatever the subject be you write upon (if uncommon the better),... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 страници
...following examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place. Their praise is still, the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Where the metrical accent would do violence to every ear of any refinement, the best way of obviating... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Sullivan Hardy Weston - 1842 - 80 страници
...Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace and competo^e. There praise is still ; the style is excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. And damns implicit faith and holy lies, Prompt to impose, and fond to dogmatize. Poetical Pauses. 9.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 страници
...does 'em good, As bodies perish thro' 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 rontent. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found:... | |
 | 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, Much fruit of sense beneath — is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, | Its gaudy colors spreads-on ev'ry place ; i The face of... | |
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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. 
