 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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: False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; Tjie face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pagina’s
...: 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pagina’s
...will court yon. Say, are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men ? BEN JONSON. WORDS. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,...fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — POPE. Words are but pictures of our thoughts.— DKYDEN. His words, replete with guile, Into her heart too... | |
 | Gildemeister - 1868 - 808 pagina’s
...1) ЖаСг[фетИф tagen фатапп foís^b« SBorte au« Pope's Essay on criticism im ©inn: 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, The face of Nature... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pagina’s
...spring." " True wit is nature, to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." " To err is human — to forgive, divine." " For fools ruah in where angels fear to tread." And those... | |
 | G. S - 1869 - 108 pagina’s
...himself. Our advice to such is, think twice before you speak once, and always aim at self-abasement. " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Mr. Joe Crusty repelled Iris would-be friends. He was known to be the man whose ro'om was preferred... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Part ii. Line 97. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Part ii. Line 109. Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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 : False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colour spreads on every place ; The face of... | |
 | 1870 - 292 pagina’s
...superficial as they are extensive. 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,i' but not in the sense... | |
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
