 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. yxi As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others for Language all their cares express, 305 And value books, as women men,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 .As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others for Language all their care express, 305 And value books as women men,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...plainness sets ofl" sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish thro'. excess of blood. Others for Language all their care...take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, Falsa eloquence, like the prismatic... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
..."'Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, ' That gives us back the image of our mind. ' As shades more sweetly recommend the light, ' So modest...good, ' As bodies perish through excess of blood." Essay on Criticism., \. 300. SECTION X. . OF THE EXORDIUM. WIT pleases in an epigram or' a song, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us hack the image of our mind. 100 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As hodies perish tbrough excess of hlood. Others for language all their care express, 105... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...recommend the light, So modest plaiuness sets off sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others...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,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...works may have more »it tliui» docs them good, As bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Other» fur language all their care express, And value books,...they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; aivd where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rnrely found. False eloquence, like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express,. And... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...express'd; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...298 Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So' modest...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... | |
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As bodies perish through 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 ; The sense they humbly take upon content. 
