 Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it.  The Literary panorama - Page 8091818Full view - About this book
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...freedom of playing the fool. 8. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come...company and good company is, only hearing the same things said in a little room or in a large saloon, at small tables or at great tables, before two candles... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 582 pages
...8 Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses ;ire like the blue and red flowers in coin, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but...9. The difference between what is commonly called ordinär// company and good company is, only hearing the same thing, said in a little room or in a... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...emphasis is called treble. 2. Flowers of rhetoric hi sermons or serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those" who come only for uteuemerd.' , tut prejtidiciaf' to A/TO' who would reap thcpm/if. 3. if an is a creature designed for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...but prejudicial to him who would reap: the profit. It often happens, that those are the best people, whose characters have been most injured by slanderers... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
 | Claire Louise R.B. de Durfort (duchesse de Duras.) - 1826 - 522 pages
...native land. CHAPTER III. " Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit." PREPARE, reader ! for by the aid of a fairy's wand I must transport myself over a few years, and behold... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. • It often happens, that those are the best people, whose characters have been most injured by slanderers... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...the stone. Alehymist. DLXTV. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourse* are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it — Pope. DLXV. When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbour, keep... | |
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