...age that we see clearly how short are the spaces ov«r which we have passed. — Ibid. VERBOSITY. — Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is seldom found. — Pope. ERAS, like individuals* differ from one another in the species of virtue which...

...Sepher Hasidim, § 285. Pope has expressed this idea in his usual masterly and attractive language — " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Essay on Criticism, \. 307. Compare below, 27 and 59. Vide Pirkei Aboth, chap. 3, sec. 9. 135 APPENDIX:...

...their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style i« excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content....abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The lace of...

...lead the soul To brighter prospects, rich in every good Which man can feel, or heaven bestow. WORDS. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,...place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glare alike, without distiru tio i giy : But true cz iression 1'kc the unchanging sun Clears and improves...

...Guardian, Act 1. Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. WALLER. — To Mr. Creech, Line 10. Words are like leaves, and, where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. POPE. — On Criticism, Line 800. Men ever had, and ever will have, leave To coin new words well suited...

...blood. 8. Others for language all their care express, And value bookj, as women men — for dress: Their praise is still — the style is excellent : The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words ar^, like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence,...

...taste.] Others for language all their care express, 105 And value books, as women men, for dress ; Their praise is still, — the style is excellent...they humbly take upon content, Words are like leaves, (25) and where they most abound, "Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, 110 MEANINGS OF WORDS...

...or statement. The tide rolls on — furiously enough it may be — but you seo nothing through it. "Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. " Or are they hearers ? Can wo not think of Christians — for so we may call them by a wide use of...

...is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Part ii. Line 97. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Part ii. Line 109 Such labored nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions,...

...blood. 3. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as -women men — for dress : Their praise is still — the style is excellent :...sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like loaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. False eloquence,...