 Regard not then if wit be old or new, But blame the false, and value still the true. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading notion of the town; They reason and conclude by precedent, 410 And own stale nonsense which they ne'er...  The Works of the English Poets: Pope - Page 101by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...warm the last; Though each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days ; Regard not then if wit be old or new, But blame the false, and value still the true. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...warm the last : (Tho' each may feel Increases and Decays, And see now clearer and now darker Days) 405 Regard not then if Wit be Old or New, But blame the False, and value still the True. Some ne'er advance a Judgment of their own, But catch the spreading... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...over two thousand years with little discernible progress. On the Metaphysical Presuppositions of Logic "Regard not then if wit be old or new. But blame the false, and value still the true." Pope In his paper "The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Formal Logic,"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...warm the last: Though each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard not then if wit be old or new, But blame the false, and value still the true. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...various ways critics go wrong. The passage points toward lines 406-7, whose meaning is unmistakable: Regard not then if Wit be old or new, But blame the false, and value still the true. That sentiment appears to contradict the passage discussed above beginning... | |
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