 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 ページ
...excess of blood. Others for language all then- care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — The style is excellent ; The sense, they humb Wordsare like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of seuse beneath is rarely found : False... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 360 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Sullivan Hardy Weston - 1842 - 80 ページ
...Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace and competo^e. There praise is still ; the style is excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. And damns implicit faith and holy lies, Prompt to impose, and fond to dogmatize. Poetical Pauses. 9.... | |
 | 1855 - 664 ページ
...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 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; The Sense, they humbly take upon rontent. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found:... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 ページ
...Language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still — t the style is excellent :' The sense, they humbly take...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 - 1845 - 330 ページ
...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 ページ
...which are made, in outward creation ; eve« his eternal power and Corf-head. Words arc like ¡cares; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath — is rarely fcund, False eloquence, like the prismatic к1олг, Its gaudy colors spreads-on n-ry place j The... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 ページ
...dress : Their praise Is slill — the style is excellent ; The sense they humbly"take upon consent. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POP*. Language, It is true, is an art, and a glorious one ; its influence extends over all others,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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 ; The sense, they humbly take upon content, j Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.... | |
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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... 
