...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...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...

...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...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature...

...p. 374. 2 A qnarrelsome and violent critic, contemporary with Pope. Their praise is still, — the style is excellent : The sense, they humbly take upon...most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely foand. 110 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The...

...halos round the moon, though they enlarge The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less. Pope. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. The shortest answer is doing the thing. Brief and terse discourses are a desideratum. Better to send...

...thrifty in regard to such expenditure ; for as the poet says, borrowing an image from the forest, — " Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Sage philosophy will lend its ear to brief sententious precepts rather than to those well-ordered words,...

...them, as distinguished from the presentation to the memory of the mere verbal forms of these ideas. " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Language is not, necessarily, evidence of thought in the mind of the person using it, any more than...

...What you keep by you, you may change and mend, But words once spoke can never be recall'd. Roscommon. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Pope. His words seemed oracles, That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn And gaze in...

...superficial as they are eitensive. Their knowledge will be more apt to make them wordy than wise ; and " Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense is rarely found." They seem to act upon the principle that " knowledge is power," but not in the sense...

...their care express, sos And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still — ' The style is excellent ; ' The sense, they humbly take...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...

...their care express, _ 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still — ' The style is excellent ; ' The sense, they humbly take...abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 <• L False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,^- ne^ef <• Its gaudy colours spreads on every place>x^...