 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 Seiten
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 ) And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong. • lu the bright Muse though... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 Seiten
...better advice can be given to the inquirer, than that afforded by Pope in his Essay on Criticism : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPELL LOFFT, ESQ.* O'BR the dark waters of the sleepless sea, Too... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if tot new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong : In the bright muse though... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 Seiten
...meretricious ornaments of the gay, or the very peculiar dress of those who run to the other extreme. " In fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the n<nc are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." No. 72.] FASHION. [TUESDAY. THE power of fashion... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 Seiten
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. " 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's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...ancient wits at best. As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho / whole aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...sense ; Such labor'd nothings in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last, to lay the old aside. 14Í Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Avoid extremes ; and shun... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 Seiten
...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...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong. In the bright Muse though thousand... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...yesterday ; 330 And hut so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...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... | |
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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. 
