 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...more decent as more suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd ; For different styles with different...sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court." The force and beauty imparted by the use of metaphor to the following passage from Pope's Messiah,... | |
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable: For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. POPE. Purity, so far from being confined to the style of Xenophon, Caesar, or Swift, may be attained... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...more suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, Is like a clown in regal purple dressed : For different styles with different subjects sort As several garbs, with country, town, and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastick, if too new or old: Be not the first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff' rent styles with diff' rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words...pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 325 NOTES. the native complexion of the objects. And false Expression is nothing else but the straining... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words...pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 325 NOTES. • the native complexion of the objects. And false Expression is nothing else but the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...more decent, as more suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, 3M Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different...made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in then: sense ; Such lubour'd nothings, m so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd: Por , desolate, alone ! An only son, once comfort of our...pains, Sad product now of hapless love, remains t ; Sucli labour d nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...Appears more decen t as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words express'd Is like n clown in regal purple dress'd: For different styles with different...Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense Such labour d nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the nnlearn'd, and make the learned sinil Unlucky as... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...suitable : A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd ; 134 For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town and court. [tence. Some by old words, to fame have made preAncients in phrase, more moderns in their sense ; Such... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...decent, as more suitable. A vile conceit, in pompous words express'd, 320 Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd : . For different styles with different...Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labor'd nothings, in so strange a style, 326 Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Unlucky,... | |
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Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words... 
