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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 81
by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...in Latin, are the unrivalled masters of the beautiful simplicity here Their praise is still,—The Style is excellent; The Sense, they humbly take upon...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; COMMENTARY....
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care exprese, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent...abound. Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 316 Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable : A vile conceit...
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The Art of Reading, Or, Rules for the Attainment of a Just and Correct ...

1826 - 82 pages
...draw the organs to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with the rhythmus of the verse : Their praise is still the style is excellent : The sense they humbly take upon content. Ibid. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided upon pain of the greatest possible...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. Again ; Their praise is still, the style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content. And worse still ; In most instances of this sort, where the metrical accent would do violence to every...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass. Its gaudy colour» «prends on every place; The fare...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...blood. Others for language all their care express ; 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — ' the style is excellent...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face...
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The American First Class Book: Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. •»*•. J False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 5

1835 - 284 pages
...South of France. READING makes a full writing an exact man. — man, conversation a ready man, BACON. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. PRIDE is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages : and envy feels not its...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...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...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 of...
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