 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 448 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 446 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 448 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 502 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 pàgines
...GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (Conn.) PUBLISHED BT AH MALTBY & CO. No. 15.] TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1820. [VOL. I. Words are like leaves ; and where they most 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... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pàgines
...cunning, or spleen of the disputants, rather than their knowledge of the subjects in debate. — . Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,...Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POPE. The following observations from Feltham, on curiosity in knowledge, may properly be introduced at this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pàgines
...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 : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pàgines
...Their praise is still, — The Style is excellent ; l^ , The Sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; NOTES.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pàgines
...dress: Their praise is st'll—' 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. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of Nature... | |
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 
