| 1814 - 636 páginas
...delicate singsong of ""verdant vales," that excellence in poetical composition is to be attained : — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Out of pity to the author of the poctu (if poem it may be called) \vhich we have in our eye, or his... | |
| 1814 - 568 páginas
...who, though unlearned, is silent, than a loquacious blockhead. For as the poet observes, " Words arc like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found." Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. " Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere," who knows not how to... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 448 páginas
...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,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 448 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 '•....rarely found. False eloquence, like the prismatic gluss, Its gaudy colour* spreads on every place; The fac^ of ruiture we no more survey, AU glares alike... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1817 - 492 páginas
...more appositely exemplified •than in the volume brfore us. Word* are like leaves; and yrheie the; most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely...eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spread* on every place.; The face of nature we no more survey, .•IU glares alike without distinction... | |
| Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 páginas
...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,...the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature ire no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...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...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... | |
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