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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Página 81de Alexander Pope - 1807 - 550 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 páginas
...excess of blood. Others for 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 content CRITICISM. 37 ' Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...blood. •' Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still,— The style is excellent;...prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; Tjie face of nature we no more survey, ^Lll glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression,... | |
| Ray Bradbury - 1986 - 102 páginas
...(whispering). Careful. BEATTY (dealing). "Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge." Or, on the other hand: "Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." Which is it, Montag? FABER (whispering). Watch it! BEATTY. Or this? "A little learning is a dangerous... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. (Fr. II) 38 L-2; NOBW; NoP; OAEL-2; PoE; PoEL-5; Son 11 Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like It (Fr. II) 39 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Fr.... | |
| L.I Ponomarev, I.V Kurchatov - 1993 - 264 páginas
...it supplies a believer with a soft pillow from which he is not so easily aroused. Let him sleep..." Words are like leaves; And where they most abound, Much fruit of sense Beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. Cicero of dice that lies behind... | |
| Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 páginas
...GEORGES DE BUFFON "Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style." BARON GRIMM "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." ALEXANDER POPE "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art." ARISTOTLE... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...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. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of... | |
| Henry H. Bauer - 1999 - 372 páginas
...is most needed, after all, when questions remain open. PART II An Analysis of the Velikovsky Affair Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Is Velikovsky Right or Wrong? Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...Clough) 29:50 Others for Language all their care express, / And value books, as women men, for Dress: / Their praise is still, - the Style is excellent: /...abound, / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 305 29:51 [conversation with a courtier] Thus others'... | |
| Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - 2001 - 412 páginas
...all their Care express, And value Books, as Women Men, for Dress: Their Praise is still — The Stile is excellent: The Sense, they humbly take upon Content....abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. The long line "Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound" (1. 309) is itself a line in which... | |
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