 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...Tamerlane. Thy words, like music, every breast controul, Steal through the air, and win upon the soul. Pope. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope, EC n. 309. Oh ! speak that again ! ELOQUENCE — continued. Now with fine phrase, and foppery... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1867 - 200 pages
..."he." Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as lie is pure." WORDS AND LEAVES. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. EDITOEIAL NOTICES. WE continue to receive encouraging letters from our canvassing friends. Their zeal... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...spring. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; But, like a shadow, prove the substance true. Good nature and... | |
 | C H. Gildemeister - 1868 - 808 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...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, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — POPE. Words are but pictures of our thoughts.— DKYDEN. His words, replete with guile, Into her... | |
 | G. S - 1869 - 108 pages
...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 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 laboured nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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, 310 False Eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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 colour spreads on every place ; The face of... | |
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