 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 - 1860 - 632 pages
...the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best. As apes ourgranclsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions,...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ^ ""nut most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 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 —...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... | |
 | 1861 - 386 pages
...with sententious wit and wisdom as with their verbal elements, aiul niiii both as with the mode — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old ;" it will, therefore, be neither amiss nor without iaterest to take up a few representative " saws... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...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...: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor y6t the last to lay the ohl aside. 15 5. But most by numbers judge a poet's s5ng ; And smooth or rough,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...wither every year, And every year a younger race succeeds. . ROSCOMMON. — Horace, Art of Poetry. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. — On Criticism, Line 885. Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those... | |
 | E. Jones (B.A.) - English language - 1864 - 112 pages
...in the most effective manner, and, in regard to proposed changes, to follow the advice of Pope : " 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." * The necessity for a systematic Spelling Reform... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...is rarely found. Part ii. Line 109 Such labored nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels... | |
 | J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony - Dentistry - 1872
...object — provided they set forth their claim in truth and perfect it in righteousness ? In deeds, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic,...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. PULP CAVITIES. BY CE LATIMER, DDS "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." I AM... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...yesterday; 130 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dressed, In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...old ; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...apes oar grandsires, in their doublets dressed. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, AYike fantastic, if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old asile. But moit by numbers judge л poet's song; And smooth or... | |
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