 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 - 21. oldalszerző: Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 220 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 oldal
...language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is «till,— tin- Its gaudy colour» «prends on every place; The fare of nature we no more survey, All glares alike,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 oldal
...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...found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey ; All glares alike,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 oldal
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 oldal
...style re6nes ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care express, And value hooks, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still —...excellent, The sense they humbly take upon content. Ib. 305. Infatuates, and through labyrinths and wilds Of error, leads them by a tune entranced. While... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 oldal
...following examples. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spreads on every place. Their praise is still, the style is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Where the metrical accent would do violence to every ear of any refinement, the best way of obviating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 oldal
...does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all then- care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise...— The style is excellent ; The sense, they humb Wordsare like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of seuse beneath is rarely found : False... | |
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