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" 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 71
1880
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

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...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

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...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

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...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

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;...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

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,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

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; ....
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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar

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,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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 ; >...
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Poetical Works

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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