 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...of expression. P24 BRITISH POETS. The followmg is one of the most admired passages in this poem : " But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, from critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, fruui critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...where may be found a character of mock-eloquence drawn by the hand of a master. But most by Numbers1 judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them,...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, from critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, .. . And...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...hold ; Alike fantastic, if too 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...with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...other can." — cowper. " In words as in 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."— pope. PART II. ETYMOLOGY. When a scholar commences the study of Grammar, it is intended... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 pages
...Roman ear was lesa nice and accurate than the Attic. Pope complains of the opposite extreme : — " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong." Essny, ii.] 265. Idcircone vager. The connection is this. "Because Roman poets are excused for lack... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...grandsires, in their doublets drest. 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...And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong i : In the bright Muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
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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. 
