 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 12de Alexander Pope - 1808Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...fallantes, R And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...yesterday ; 330 \ And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 pages
...and they seldom long survive the occasion that gave them birth. In words, as fashions, the same nile will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new aretry'd, Nor y»t the last to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticism. VOL. I. H We cannot... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...nor Critics' pass, As heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass'. Pope. 41. — Harmony of Expression. BUT most, by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them is right or In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, f Not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; / Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 pages
...mother tongue, while a general regard is paid to the precept expressed in the following couplet. ' Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asid«.' ART. VIII. — Oeuvres inedites de Madame la Baronne de Stael, pubHees par son Jils. 3... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pages
...observe a happy medium between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this subject, pages 29, 30, and 58, 59.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...yesterday ; 330 3 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. KOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not... | |
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