 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...  Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret - Strana 21podľa Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Počet stránok 220Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - Počet stránok 328
...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 praise...excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content, j Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - Počet stránok 432
...dress : Their praise Is slill — the style is excellent ; The sense they humbly"take upon consent. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POP*. Language, It is true, is an art, and a glorious one ; its influence extends over all others,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Počet stránok 488
...been said before." — Johnson. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and Caesar in Latin, Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Počet stránok 1172
...Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. (Fr. II) 38 L-2; NOBW; NoP; OAEL-2; PoE; PoEL-5; Son 11 Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like It (Fr. II) 39 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Fr.... | |
 | L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - 1993 - Počet stránok 264
...it supplies a believer with a soft pillow from which he is not so easily aroused. Let him sleep..." Words are like leaves; And where they most abound, Much fruit of sense Beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero of dice that lies behind... | |
 | Mervin Block - 1997 - Počet stránok 332
...GEORGES DE BUFFON "Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style." BARON GRIMM "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." ALEXANDER POPE "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art." ARISTOTLE... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - Počet stránok 260
...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...found. 310 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... | |
 | Henry H. Bauer - 1999 - Počet stránok 372
...is most needed, after all, when questions remain open. PART II An Analysis of the Velikovsky Affair Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Is Velikovsky Right or Wrong? Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Počet stránok 604
...century, 'Cicero', in Lives (trans. AH Clough) 29:50 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. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 305 29:51 [conversation with a courtier] Thus others'... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 2001 - Počet stránok 314
...by comparing two passages, Pope's couplet from the Essay on Criticism, which we have already quoted: Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found and a portion of one of Coleridge's letters to Godwin: Is thinking impossible without arbitrary signs?... | |
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