| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have1 more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through...take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence,2 like the prismatic... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...the wit brightens ! how the style refines P Pope. Eway on Crtt. 418. 102. Some the style, (fee. : " Others for language all their care express, And value...excellent ; The sense they humbly take upon content" 76. 846k " Her voice is all these tuneful fook admire." /*. 3401 And sheep-walks populous with bleating... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Pope. CCCXXX. A man cannot possess any thing that... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, sos... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. POlK. cccxxx. A man cannot possess any thing that... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. , soo As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, _ 305... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for langunge all their care express, And value books, as women men for dress ; Their praise is still —... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...express'd ; Something whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest...sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...the image or our mind. 309 Aa shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets oil' sprightly wit; For works may have more wit than does...good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others Tor language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still,... | |
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