...dress : Their praise Is slill — the style is excellent ; The sense they humbly"take upon consent. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POP*. Language, It is true, is an art, and a glorious one ; its influence extends over all others,...

...been said before." — Johnson. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and Caesar in Latin, 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 ev'ry place ; The face...

...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...

...of wit. 10. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress ; Their praise is still — " The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest...

...of wit. 10. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress ; Their praise is still — " The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest...

...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...found : False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gandy colour spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without...

...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 of nature wo no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like the unchanging...

...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...

...; 1 Don Qnixote. s See note s, p. 374. 2 A qnarrelsome and violent critic, contemporary with Pope. Their praise is still, — the style is excellent...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...

...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...