...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,...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...

...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,...found : False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gandy colour spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without...

...impression, that every passage leads to the treasure. With the couplet of Pope in our mind, that " "Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found," we feel that Butler wanted only words to make him perfect, and that a dipping in the language of Hobbes...

...scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day." And, next, for a survey of other couplets. " The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay." " There at one passage oft you might survey, A lie and truth contending for the way." " Stretched on...

...eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature wo no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon : It gilds all objects, but it alters...

...beneath is rarely found. 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 distinction gay ; I But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It...

...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,...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...

...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...

...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,...