 | Thomas Hirst - Church music - 1841 - 380 pages
...rhythm, the choice appropriation of language to the progressive development of the sentiment ; for, " Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable." Thus every thought and passion of the character represented, seems to breathe, and throb, and glow... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...lay almost wholly in language. He thought that ' True expression like the unchanging sun, Clears amd improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none,' ( 'To him we are mainly indebted for a new revelation of the capabilities of English heroic verse.... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1842 - 320 pages
...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds...suitable ; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff'rent styles with difTrent subjects sort, As sev'ral... | |
 | Richard White (surgeon-dentist.) - 1844 - 110 pages
...adapted to the mass of general readers, avoiding all technicalities, and thinking with the poet — " Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable." From the strongest conviction of its utility, he has recommended an early attention to the state of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It...as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, Is like a clown in regal purple dressed ; For different styles with different subjects sort,... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, George Herbert, Richard Baxter, George Campbell - Preaching - 1845 - 490 pages
...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay. But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds...thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable. Pope's Essay on Criticism. B. Extremely well. I thought I never saw so much wit, elegance, sweetness,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...distinction — gay : But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears, and improves, whate'er it f hints upon: It gilds— all objects, but it alters — none....and still Appears more decent — as more suitable Я40. A Colon, (i) marts a pause of three seconds; or while one can coimt three, deliberately. Principles... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...— ffay : But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears, and improves, whate'er it s/iincs upon : It gilds — all objects, but it alters — none. Expression — is the ilress of thought, and uitl Appears more detent— <a more tuitabU 66 87 »4«. A Colon, (i) marks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon : ^ It...320 Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd ; For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...Pope's ideal lay almost wholly in language. He thought that ' True expression like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none.' To him we are mainly indebted for a new revelation of the capabilities of English heroic verse. He... | |
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Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters... 
