 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...Their praise is still — the style is excellent : The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words ar^, like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of Nature... | |
 | 1865 - 804 pages
...or statement. The tide rolls on — furiously enough it may be — but you seo nothing through it. "Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. " Or are they hearers ? Can wo not think of Christians — for so we may call them by a wide use of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 labored nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions,... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...still, — the style is excellent ; The sense they humbly take upon content, Words are like leaves, (25) and where they most abound, "Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, 110 MEANINGS OF WORDS IN ITALICS, AS SUGGESTIONS FOR PARAPHRASING. Line 105. Some; phrases; desire.... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 272 pages
...praise is still, — The style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content CRITICISM. 37 ' 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 ev'ry place ; The face of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...still — the style is excellent : The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like loaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of Nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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; Tjie face of nature... | |
 | 1877 - 688 pages
...and profound, rather than that they should be plain, simple, and intelligible, forgetting that • Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Our readers will understand what we mean if they compare some of the verbose and obscure writings published... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...: 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... | |
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