...prudent man, who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to...

...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...

...who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words arc like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to...

...mind him; never speak till you've O 2 something to say, and then say only what you have to say." " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, * Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,...

...mind him j never speak till you'vo O 2 something to say, and then say only what you have to say." « Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, " Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,...

...mind him ; never speak till you've OS something to say, and then say only what you have to say." " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, " Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found." Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,...

...of all wit is truth ; and no thought can be valuable, of \\hich good sense is not the grouudwo»k. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that...

...draw the reader to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with tin j-hjthmus of the verse. Their praise is still, the style is excellent: The sense they humbly take upon content. Pope, But a stress upon, the bet syllable of this word must be avoided, as the most childish and ridiculous...

...know not where the remaining lines could be more appositely exemplified than in the volume before us. Words are like leaves ; and where they most '•....abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic gluss, Its gaudy colour* spreads on every place; The fac^ of ruiture...

...hodies perish through excess of hlood. Others for language all their care express, And value hooks, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still, — the style is excellent ; The sense, they homhly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they must ahound, Much fruit of sense heneath...