 | A. W. Winkelmann - 1816 - 514 ページ
...draw the reader to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with tin j-hjthmus of the verse. Their praise is still, the style is excellent: The sense they humbly take upon content. Pope, But a stress upon, the bet syllable of this word must be avoided, as the most childish and ridiculous... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 ページ
...know not where the remaining lines could be more appositely exemplified than in the volume before us. Words are like leaves ; and where they most '•....abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic gluss, Its gaudy colour* spreads on every place; The fac^ of ruiture... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 ページ
...GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (Conn.) PUBLISHED BT AH MALTBY & CO. No. 15.] TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1820. [VOL. I. 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 every place ; The face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 ページ
...before." Others, for Language all their care express 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent...prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and Csesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 ページ
...value books, as women men, for dress : ^^7- Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent ; l^ , The Sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are...prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES. Ver. 302. modest plainness"] Xenophon in Greek, and Ceesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters... | |
 | 1822 - 284 ページ
...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. .False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 ページ
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is st'll—' the style is excellent;' The sense they humbly take...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... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 ページ
...cunning, or spleen of the disputants, rather than their knowledge of the subjects in debate. — . Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POPE. The following observations from Feltham, on curiosity in knowledge, may properly be introduced... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 ページ
...draw the reader 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. Pope. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided, as the most childish and ridiculous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: descending swept his aged br False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Ils gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
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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... 
