...line — Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 10. Others for language all their care express, And value...excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest...

...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...

...approved so strongly that he used it twice in his Dictionary, under 'language' and under 'express': 'Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men, for dress').14 But it is important to distinguish between the way Locke and his followers disparaged figures...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...sprighdy wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for 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 content. Words are like leaves; and...

...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...

...horseback because they cannot walk. Plutarch, 1st century, 'Cicero', in Lives (trans. AH Clough) 29:50 Others for Language all their care express, / And...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'...

...also suggested by a long line in a passage of Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" (11. 305-310): Others for Language all their Care express, And value...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...