 | Alexander Crombie - 1809 - 456 páginas
...determines its character, and our opiniun of its author. ". " True expression, like th' unchanging sun, " Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon. " It gilds all objects, but it alters nune." POPE. In "short, the precept of Quintilian should be studiously observed; " curam ergo verborum,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 páginas
...and he looked no farther : as if that rule of common sense had been a discovery of yesterday — " Expression is the dress of thought, and still " Appears more decent, as more suitable." Pope, Essay on Crit. ver. 318. PACE 148. Night, and her ugly subjects, tkou daft fright. " Nigbt, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...Sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; li gilds all objects, but it alters none. Kxpression ight reversion in the sky For those who greatly thick, « bravely *2S W ; SCRIPTIVE, &c. 213 •\ vile conceit, in pompous words exp cet, s like a clown iu regal purple drest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...survey, all glares alike, without distinction gay; but true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 315 clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; it gilds...express'd, 320 is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : lor diff'rent styles with difFrent subjects sort, as several garbs with country, town, and court.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...survey, all glares alike, without distinction gay; but true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 315 clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; it gilds...express'd, 320 is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : lor diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, as several garbs with country, town, and court.... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 186 páginas
...more survey, All glares alike without distinction gay. But true expression, like the unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds...and still Appears more, decent, as more suitable. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 10 so good a judge, would serve to make you understand what concerns eloquence.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...Clears and improves whate'cr it shines upon ; It uil.l- all objects, but it altcre none-. repression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent,...as more suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words exprcss'd, 320 Is like a clown in regal purple drcss'd: tor different styles with different subjcdts... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1810 - 184 páginas
...rules of eloquence, cannot hear such empty, vain haranguers without satiety, disgust, and contempt. * Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable : A low conceit in pompous words exprest, Is like a clown in regal purple drest. For different styles with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 páginas
...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 niters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...alike, without distinction gay: Bat me expression, like th' unchanging Rnn, Clean and improves wbate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression Fa the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable: A vile conceit in pompous... | |
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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 th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters... 
