 In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.  Poetical Works - Page 12by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And hut so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires,...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions,...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asideBut most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong:... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...mode, comply ; more §ense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Young. Satire iv. 30 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope. Essay on Crit. ii. SSB. M And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...mode, comply ; more sense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Young. Satire iv. 30 Be not the first by whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope. Essay on Crit. ii. 33R. 51 And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage.... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...poverty will much more readily, and more justly too, be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Ee not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* „ 110. By the... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1839 - 316 pages
...be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will liold ; . Alike fantastic if too new or old ; ' Be not the first...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* 110. By the use of good words new modelled. The third species of barbarism, is that produced... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our graudsires, in their doublets drest. s wat tore arraid When in yon vield you kiss'd the...; Is this the love that ortee to me yo« zed, W he new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...advice of the poet, with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism, is extremely good. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asidei. PART III. — By the use of good words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...poverty will much more readily, and more justly too, be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom tho new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* 110. By the use of good words new modelled.... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1841 - 416 pages
...The advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold : Alike...fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new «re tri'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. f PART III. — By the use of good words nno-moddled.... | |
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