...Dress: Their Praise is still — The Stile 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. The long line "Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound" (1. 309) is itself a line in which...

...by comparing two passages, Pope's couplet from the Essay on Criticism, which we have already quoted: Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found and a portion of one of Coleridge's letters to Godwin: Is thinking impossible without arbitrary signs?...

...shadows of actions." — Democritus "Words are meaningless till translated into action." — Guru Nanak "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." — Alexander Pope Byron "Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools." — Thomas Hobbes...

...PART 2 The Dictionary of Concise Writing 49 About the Author: A Q&A with Robert Hartwell Fiske 410 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. ALEXANDER POPE, Essay on Criticism Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words....

...favorites are Eliot and Baudelaire and Pope." "What's your favorite line from Pope?" Anatole pressed me. "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." "And Baudelaire?" he kept pressing. "'Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, monfrere.'" "Touche, Stuart!"...

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...we are both map and territory, but is sadly unable to distinguish between the two.5 Pope observed: "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,/ Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found [...]" In his study, as much as in the desert, Jerome laboured with the disjunction between text and...

...without a woman in it - Kate Field. Wonder 1 . No wonder can last for more than three days. Word 1 . Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. - Alexander Pope. 2. Keep a watch on your words. For words are wonderful things. They are: Sweet like...

...colored by our speech center to make us unsafe. We can conscientiously think ourselves into being unsafe Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope The neocortex reexamines the consciousness of incoming sensations. Our brain gives more...

...E E F F G G H H I 1 J J K K L L M M N N O 0 P P Q Q R R S S T T U U V V w W X X Y Y z Z WORD GAMES Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope To have mastery over words is to have in one's possession the ability to produce...