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" 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 809
1818
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 52

1858 - 784 pages
...furgetting Swift's aphorism — "Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and 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." But there was nothing trite or commonplace in his discourses. The artist's finish was visible in each...
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Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is ...

Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...cannot bt- hidden in adversity. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the jirofit. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, Than that Caesar were dead, to live...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...data. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in com, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, Than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?...
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The Fifth Progressive Reader, Volume 5

Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...be hidden' in adversity*. 2. 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*. * When two words are opposed to each other, and contrasted with two other words, the emphasis on these...
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The Sixth Progressive Reader, Or Oratorical Class-book: With a Treatise on ...

Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, plca~ ring' to those" who come only for amusement', but prejudicial* to him' who would reap the profit". * When two words are opposed to each otber, and contrasted with two other words, the emphasis on these...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift ... Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and ...

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters ..., Volume 13

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that...
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The Works, Volume 13

Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit, When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...pleased; and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself, and with others, is no very easy task. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary...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 candies...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...well dressed and argument put in order.— Jeremy Collier. Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn ; pleasing to those who come only...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. — Swift. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric ; but it oftener serves ill turns...
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