 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Oratory - 1810 - 184 pages
...music, of which you are * False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All...without distinction gay. But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects but it alters... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; ' the face... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, it's gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place; the face... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...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: 310 A natureza nua, e as graças vivas 360 Com doiradura e joias cobrem tudo. Os adornos escondem falta... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The fa«£... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - Emotions - 1813 - 420 pages
...genuine feelings of none. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place: The face of Nature we no more survey; All glares alike without distinction gay. THE END. G.SIDNEY, Printer, Northumberland-street, Strand. POPS. A 3 9015 00392462 i Un,«r 5 ,t,ofM,ch,9a... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 428 pages
...the f» eloquence, like the prismatic glass, j»i"*.v c°l°ars spreads on every place : •fix fate of Nature we no more survey ; All glares alike without distinction gay. POPE. THE END. G.SIDNEY, Printer, Northumberland-street, Strand. \ be concise ; amuses itself with... | |
 | Classical philology - 1814 - 636 pages
...delicate singsong of ""verdant vales," that excellence in poetical composition is to be attained : — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Out of pity to the author of the poctu (if poem it may be called) \vhich we have in our eye, or his... | |
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Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
