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" Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found... "
The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 269
by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pages
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...women men for dress ; Their praise is still — " the style is excellent :" The sense, they humhly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where...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...
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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury - Drama - 1986 - 102 pages
...(whispering). Careful. BEATTY (dealing). "Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge." Or, on the other hand: "Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Which is it, Montag? FABER (whispering). Watch it! BEATTY. Or this? "A little learning is a dangerous...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. (Fr. II) 38 L-2; NOBW; NoP; OAEL-2; PoE; PoEL-5; Son 11 Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like It (Fr. II) 39 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Fr....
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The Quantum Dice

L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - Science - 1993 - 264 pages
...it supplies a believer with a soft pillow from which he is not so easily aroused. Let him sleep..." Words are like leaves; And where they most abound, Much fruit of sense Beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero of dice that lies behind...
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Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger

Mervin Block - Broadcast journalism - 1997 - 332 pages
...GEORGES DE BUFFON "Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style." BARON GRIMM "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." ALEXANDER POPE "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art." ARISTOTLE...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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 true...
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Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy

Henry H. Bauer - Reference - 1999 - 372 pages
...is most needed, after all, when questions remain open. PART II An Analysis of the Velikovsky Affair Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Is Velikovsky Right or Wrong? Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 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...abound, / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 305 29:51 [conversation with a courtier] Thus others'...
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The Motivated Sign: Iconicity in Language and Literature 2

Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 412 pages
...express, And value Books, as Women Men, for Dress: Their Praise is still — The Stile is excellent: The Sense, they humbly take upon Content. Words are...abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. The long line "Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound" (1. 309) is itself a line in which...
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Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language: A Critical and Historical Study

Gerald L. Bruns - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 314 pages
...by comparing two passages, Pope's couplet from the Essay on Criticism, which we have already quoted: Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found and a portion of one of Coleridge's letters to Godwin: Is thinking impossible without arbitrary signs?...
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