 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gandy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thro' excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, tor on The gentlest of thy looks. Let no dark crimes, Ih all their hideous u|>on content. Words are like leaves ; and, where they most abound. Much fruit of sense beneath is... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...the light, so modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : for works may have more wit than does them good, as bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others...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 of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...recommend the light, so modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: for works may have more wit than does them good, as bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others...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 of Nature... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praisa is still, — the style is excellent: The sense, they...abound. Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; VARIATIONS. Ver.... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...does them pood, As bodies perish throngh excess of bleed. Others, for language all their care express. And value books, as women men, 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...requires : Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise, Their praise is still the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. False eloquence like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. RULE IV. The vowel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly Kit : For works may have more wit than docs them good, As bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others...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 of Nature... | |
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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. 
