 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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 - Science - 1993 - 264 pages
...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 - Broadcast journalism - 1997 - 332 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...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...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 true... | |
 | Henry H. Bauer - Reference - 1999 - 372 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...century, 'Cicero', in Lives (trans. AH Clough) 29:50 Others for Language all their care express, / And value books, as women men, for Dress: / Their...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'... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 314 pages
...by comparing two passages, Pope's couplet from the Essay on Criticism, which we have already quoted: Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found and a portion of one of Coleridge's letters to Godwin: Is thinking impossible without arbitrary signs?... | |
 | Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 412 pages
...Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" (11. 305-310): Others for Language 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. Words are like Leaves; and where they... | |
 | Robert Hartwell Fiske - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 420 pages
...PART 2 The Dictionary of Concise Writing 49 About the Author: A Q&A with Robert Hartwell Fiske 410 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. ALEXANDER POPE, Essay on Criticism Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.... | |
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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. 
