 | Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller - 1997 - 315 頁
...than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many... | |
 | Mervin Block - 1997 - 314 頁
...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... | |
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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. 
