 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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