 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence ; Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd... | |
 | Gildemeister - 1868 - 808 pages
...Is like a clown in regal purple drest. For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have mad pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere modems in their sense; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence3, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; * * * * In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...rhyme, which, in its turn, is mean .' I For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence,1 Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such laboured nothings, in so strange... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed; For diffrent styles with dift'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd: For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
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... whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words... 
