| John Walker - 1824 - 788 pages
...a syllable in long words which ought to have none, as in a couplet of Pope's Essay on Criticism : " False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, " Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place.** Here a foreigner would be apt to place an accent on the last syllable of rieguen ce as well as the... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still — ' the style is excellent...abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care exprese, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent...abound. Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 316 Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable : A vile conceit... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 418 pages
...and never mind him ; never speak till you've something to say, and then say only what you have to ' 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 - 1825 - 432 pages
...never mind him; never speak till you've 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : , as if he would sold His tongue, he praised it, and...I was fain to say, ' If you had lived, sir Time en tbey most abound, 320 Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic... | |
| Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...draw the organs to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with the rhythmus of the verse : Their praise is still the style is excellent : The sense they humbly take upon content. Ibid. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided upon pain of the greatest possible... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. Again; Their praise is still, the style is excellent ,. The sense, they humbly take upon content. And worse still; My soul ascends above the sky, And triumphs in her liberty. In most instances of this... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...language all their care express, 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; ana where they m abound, But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- colour» «prends on every place; The fare of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction... | |
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