 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...dress : Their praise is still — 'The Style is excellent ! The Sense they humbly take u|>on content. d in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Most souls 'tis true, but. peiiji out once an age, Du False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, l'< S1UHJ colors spreads on cv'ry place ; The face of Nature... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pagina’s
...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«£... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 636 pagina’s
...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 - 262 pagina’s
...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 - 568 pagina’s
...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. 
