 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, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky 83 Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; sso And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Han in his Humour.1 But most by numbers... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...dresses, according to the mode that prevailed." — Addieon on Medals. 985. He puts it on, Ac. : " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope. Essay on Crittcitm, ii. 883. 996. Age of fabled gold : The ancient poets divided... | |
 | American essays - 1913 - 916 pages
...For Pope's conclusion is the only reasonable one, and particularly applicable to pronunciation : — In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike...whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The time element, however, does not enter into the second phase of the question, that of... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...respect both to obsolete and to new-coined words, Pope's advice seems the best that we can follow : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. 4. Grammatical errors are common to almost all our early great authors... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...breezes blow roses on their cheeks, and its mild moisture gives roundness to their beauty. ANGLICISMS. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old. ESSAY ox CRITICISM. A GREAT deal has been said, and still continues to be said, by British travelers... | |
 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...according to the mode that prevailed." — Addison on Medals. 985. He puts it on, <fec. : " Be not tho first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope. Essay on CrtMcism, 1i. 888. 996. Age of fabled gold : The ancient poets divided the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When usage is divided, an expression... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastie, ands design' d) Bid harbours open, public ways extend',...God, ascend ; Bid the broad arch the dangerous Hood them,is right or wrong* : In the bright Muse, though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will holdAlike 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."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is that... | |
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