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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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Report of the Board of Education ...

1870 - 292 pages
...superficial as they are extensive. 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,i' but not in the sense...
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A compendious grammar and philological hand-book of the English language

John Stuart Colquhoun - 1871 - 264 pages
...worth all the wealth of the Indies. " He whom, next thyself, Of all the world I loved."— Tempest. " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." — POPB. " Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest.", — Macbeth....
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury - 1986 - 102 pages
...(whispering). Careful. BEATTY (dealing). "Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge." Or, on the other hand: "Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Which is it, Montag? FABER (whispering). Watch it! BEATTY. Or this? "A little learning is a dangerous...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. (Fr. II) 38 L-2; NOBW; NoP; OAEL-2; PoE; PoEL-5; Son 11 Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like It (Fr. II) 39 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Fr....
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The Quantum Dice

L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - 1993 - 266 pages
...it supplies a believer with a soft pillow from which he is not so easily aroused. Let him sleep..." Words are like leaves; And where they most abound, Much fruit of sense Beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero of dice that lies behind...
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Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger

Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 pages
...GEORGES DE BUFFON "Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style." BARON GRIMM "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." ALEXANDER POPE "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art." ARISTOTLE...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...for 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 every place; The face of...
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Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy

Henry H. Bauer - 1999 - 372 pages
...is most needed, after all, when questions remain open. PART II An Analysis of the Velikovsky Affair Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Is Velikovsky Right or Wrong? Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 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. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 305 29:51 [conversation with a courtier] Thus others'...
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