 | 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- False eloquence, like the prismatic glass. Its gaudy colour» «prends on every place; The fare of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care...Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of nature... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...does them good As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, — for dress : Their...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. •»*•. J False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...South of France. READING makes a full writing an exact man. — man, conversation a ready man, BACON. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. PRIDE is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages : and envy feels not its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...does them gooff, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, s throng, And all our grace at table is a song. 1, who so oft renounce the Muses, lie, Not False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...brightens ! how the style refines ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise...excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. Ib, 305. Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Ib, 340. Infatuates, and through labyrinths and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...style re6nes ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care express, And value hooks, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still —...excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. Ib. 305. Infatuates, and through labyrinths and wilds Of error, leads them by a tune entranced. While... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...following examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place. Their praise is still, the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Where the metrical accent would do violence to every ear of any refinement, the best way of obviating... | |
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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. 
