 | British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...dress: Their praise is st'll—' 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 ; The face of Nature... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...dress: Their praise is still — the style is excellent: The sense, they humbly take upon content. antageous act may be achiev'd By sudden onset, eith False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Ils gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...recommended. 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 ev'ry place ; COMMENTARY.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 páginas
...recommended. 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 ev'ry place ; COMMENTARY.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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. 316 Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable : A vile conceit... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 ; The face of nature... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 418 páginas
...and never mind him ; never speak till you've something to say, and then say only what you have to ' 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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 432 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content. ame, / 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass. Its gaudy colour» «prends on every place; The fare... | |
 | 1835 - 284 páginas
...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... | |
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
