 | 1826 - 82 sider
...draw the organs to a wrong pronunciation of the word, in compliance with the rhythmus of the verse : Their praise is still the style is excellent : The sense they humbly take upon content. Ibid. But a stress upon the last syllable of this word must be avoided upon pain of the greatest possible... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 sider
...examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place. Again; Their praise is still, the style is excellent ,. The sense, they humbly take upon content. And worse still; My soul ascends above the sky, And triumphs in her liberty. In most instances of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 sider
...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 content. Words are like leaves; ana where they m abound, But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 sider
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- colour» «prends on every place; The fare of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 sider
...sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care...False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey ; All glares alike, without distinction... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 sider
...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...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. •»*•. J False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The... | |
 | 1835 - 284 sider
...South of France. READING makes a full writing an exact man. — man, conversation a ready man, BACON. WORDS are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. PRIDE is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages : and envy feels not its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 sider
...does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, s throng, And all our grace at table is a song. 1, who so oft renounce the Muses, lie, Not every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay i But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 336 sider
...does them gooff, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise...the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 sider
...brightens ! how the style refines ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 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. Ib, 305. Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Ib, 340. Infatuates, and through labyrinths and... | |
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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. 
