 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
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...yesterday ! J And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dresr. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. I ie not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...yesterday ! * And but so mimic anlient wits at best, \s apes our grands.in.-s, in their doublets drcst. ent like a rose when I'm dead. § 62. The Ant, or...We tread thein to dust, and a troop of them dies, 4 And smooth or rough with them is rightonvroug: In the brightM use tho'thousand charms conspire. Her... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...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. I'vpe's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if 100 new or old : Be not the first by whom th'e new are...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers jndge a poet's song. And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousandcharms... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...newest of the old words, and the oldest of the new, or that they are unattentive to Pope's precept, Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* We must not suppose, that these poetical words never occur at all, except in poetry. Even... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1810 - 282 pages
...advice of our most elegant poet, Pope : In words, as fashions, the same rule will bold, Alike fantastick if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Essay tn Criticism, (4) Cress of great importance te the firs! impression we raafet upon... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the Same rule will bold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's soop; [338 And smooth... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best. As apes ourgrandsires in their doubtlets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike fantastic, if too new, or old j Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
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