 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 ページ
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; the face... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 ページ
...for dress: Their praise is still — the style is excsHent; The sense they humbly take upon content. 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 ; 1 Naturam intueamur,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 ページ
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; ' the face... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - 1811 - 106 ページ
...kindle flames or quench them. 65. A constant talker tires, and a caviller torments every company. 66. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope. 67. Levity and impertinence are the/«tfA, lies and impurity the sediment of discourse. 68. Give... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 ページ
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 ページ
...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: 310 A natureza nua, e as graças vivas 360 Com doiradura e joias cobrem tudo. Os adornos escondem falta... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 ページ
...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 : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The fa«£... | |
 | 1814 - 262 ページ
...prudent man, who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
 | 1814 - 636 ページ
...delicate singsong of ""verdant vales," that excellence in poetical composition is to be attained : — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Out of pity to the author of the poctu (if poem it may be called) \vhich we have in our eye, or his... | |
 | 1814 - 568 ページ
...who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words arc like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
