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 - 408 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 Seiten
...in Latin, are the unrivalled masters of the beautiful simplicity here Their praise is still,—The Style is excellent; The Sense, they humbly take upon...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 Seiten
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care exprese, 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. 316 Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable : A vile conceit... | |
| 1826 - 82 Seiten
...draw the organs 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. Ibid. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided upon pain of the greatest possible... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 Seiten
...examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. Again ; Their praise is still, the style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content. And worse still ; In most instances of this sort, where the metrical accent would do violence to every... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass. Its gaudy colour» «prends on every place; The fare... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men,— for dress : Their praise is still, — the style is excellent...False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...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 colors spreads on every place ; The face... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...of blood. Others for language all their care express, 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. •»*•. J False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The... | |
| 1835 - 284 Seiten
...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 - 502 Seiten
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, 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 every place; The face of... | |
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