 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...of blood. Others for language all their ^care express, 305 And value books as women men, for dress : Their praise is still.. ..the style is excellent;...prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...of blood. Others for Language all their care express, 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — The style is excellent...prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The fa«£ of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression,... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...of blood. Others for Language all their care express, 305 And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, the style is excellent ; The...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Families - 1814 - 448 pages
...mind him; never speak till you've O 2 something to say, and then say only what you have to say." " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, * Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Families - 1814 - 446 pages
...mind him ; never speak till you've OS something to say, and then say only what you have to say." " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, " Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Families - 1814 - 448 pages
...mind him j never speak till you'vo O 2 something to say, and then say only what you have to say." « Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, " Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...of all wit is truth ; and no thought can be valuable, of \\hich good sense is not the grouudwo»k. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
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And value books, as women men, 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... 
