 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- style is excellent ; / colour» «prends on every place; The fare of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...express, 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...the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — the style is excellent ; heir prize the every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay i But... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 360 pages
...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,... | |
 | Criticism - 1855 - 664 pages
...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 pages
...dress: Their praise is still, — The 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: False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; The face of Nature... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still — t the style is excellent :' The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence,2 like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...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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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found... 
