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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 81von Alexander Pope - 1807 - 550 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...requires : Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise, Their praise is still the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. False eloquence like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. RULE IV. The vowel... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...of blood. Others for Language all their care express, 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — The style is excellent...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The fa«£... | |
| Horace - 1812 - 198 Seiten
...of blood. Others for Language all their care express, 305 And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, the style is excellent ; The...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found: 310 A natureza nua, e as graças vivas 360 Com doiradura e joias cobrem tudo. Os adornos escondem falta... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 Seiten
...of blood. Others for language all their ^care express, 305 And value books as women men, for dress : Their praise is still.. ..the style is excellent;...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face... | |
| 1814 - 262 Seiten
...prudent man, who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
| 1814 - 636 Seiten
...delicate singsong of ""verdant vales," that excellence in poetical composition is to be attained : — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Out of pity to the author of the poctu (if poem it may be called) \vhich we have in our eye, or his... | |
| 1814 - 568 Seiten
...who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words arc like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...of all wit is truth ; and no thought can be valuable, of \\hich good sense is not the grouudwo»k. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
| A. W. Winkelmann - 1816 - 514 Seiten
...draw the reader to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with tin j-hjthmus of the verse. Their praise is still, the style is excellent: The sense they humbly take upon content. Pope, But a stress upon, the bet syllable of this word must be avoided, as the most childish and ridiculous... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 Seiten
...know not where the remaining lines could be more appositely exemplified than in the volume before us. Words are like leaves ; and where they most '•....rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic gluss, Its gaudy colour* spreads on every place; The fac^ of ruiture we no more survey, AU glares alike... | |
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