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" Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. "
New Grammar of the English Tongue - Page 163
by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 252 pages
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...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...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 6

Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Volume 6

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 456 pages
...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,...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...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...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...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...
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Transactions of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Volume 1

Massachusetts Teachers Association - 1852 - 358 pages
...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...
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...
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A cyclopędia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volumes 17-19

Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1854 - 970 pages
...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...
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