 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; the face... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...for dress: Their praise is still — the style is excsHent; 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 ev'ry place ; 1 Naturam intueamur,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; ' the face... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - Ethics - 1811 - 106 pages
...kindle flames or quench them. 65. A constant talker tires, and a caviller torments every company. 66. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope. 67. Levity and impertinence are the/«tfA, lies and impurity the sediment of discourse. 68. Give... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 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... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 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 A natureza nua, e as graças vivas 360 Com doiradura e joias cobrem tudo. Os adornos escondem falta... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 fa«£... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 262 pages
...prudent man, who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
 | Classical philology - 1814 - 636 pages
...delicate singsong of ""verdant vales," that excellence in poetical composition is to be attained : — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Out of pity to the author of the poctu (if poem it may be called) \vhich we have in our eye, or his... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words arc like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
| |
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
