Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters... Englische Studien - Page 711880Full view - About this book
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...abound, Much fruit of senie beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glas*, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face...survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 3i5 Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...world. The same may be observed of the word eloquence and the particle the in the following couplet: False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place. Pope. If, in compliance with the rhythmus, or tune of the verse, we lay a stress on the last syllable... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy...survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 21s Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...lines of comparison. 22. 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.* Th« Jdyll. KnxA. f Metam. xiii. 789. J Ver. 311, The nauseous affectation of expressing every thing... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...lines of comparison. 22. 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.t The * Idyll. KV*A. f Metam. xiii. 789. + Ver. 311. / The nauseous affectation of expressing every;... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, Falsa eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place 5 The lace of nature we no more survey. All glares alike, without distinction gayj But true Expression,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...Words are like leaves ; and where they most ahound, Much fruit of sense heneath is rarely found. 110 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy...survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay; But true expression, like th' unchanging. sun, 1J5) Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; .... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 pages
...Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound* ' Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. • False Eloquence, like the prismatic glass, ' Its gaudy...survey, ' All glares alike, without distinction gay : • But true expression, like th' unchanging sun,-» ' Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 ; But true expression, like the' unchanging sun, 1 Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; >... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 ; But true expression, like the' unchanging sun, > Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; v... | |
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