 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 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 : False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gandy colour spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 ページ
...impression, that every passage leads to the treasure. With the couplet of Pope in our mind, that " "Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found," we feel that Butler wanted only words to make him perfect, and that a dipping in the language of Hobbes... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 ページ
...halos round the moon, though they enlarge The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less. Pope. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. The shortest answer is doing the thing. Brief and terse discourses are a desideratum. Better to send... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 ページ
...thrifty in regard to such expenditure ; for as the poet says, borrowing an image from the forest, — " Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Sage philosophy will lend its ear to brief sententious precepts rather than to those well-ordered words,... | |
 | Massachusetts Teachers Association - 1852 - 358 ページ
...them, as distinguished from the presentation to the memory of the mere verbal forms of these ideas. " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Language is not, necessarily, evidence of thought in the mind of the person using it, any more than... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 ページ
...Pope. 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 foand. 110 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 ページ
...What you keep by you, you may change and mend, But words once spoke can never be recall'd. Roscommon. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Pope. His words seemed oracles, That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn And gaze in... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1854 - 972 ページ
...superficial as they are eitensive. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 ページ
...: 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 every place ; The face... | |
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
