 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...shall warm the last ; Tho' 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 - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...shall warm the last; Tho' 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 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. And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent. Some judge of authors'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1906 - 204 pages
...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 notion of the Town ; They reason and conclude by precedent, 410 And own stale nonsense which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pages
...and now darker days. L Regard not then if wit be old or new, k 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, And own stale nonsense which they... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 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. And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent Some judge of authors'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1906 - 198 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... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1908 - 440 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 judgement of their own, But catch the spreading... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...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 notion of the Town : They reason and conclude by precedent, 410 And own stale nonsense which... | |
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