 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be best : old aside. But most by numbers judge n poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...dress'd. 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. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Jonson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1876 - 552 pages
...injunction : 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. " Essay on Criticism" Part II. Yet Pope himself elsewhere says that great writers, " the... | |
 | Robert Tomes - History - 1873 - 288 pages
...taste will take care not to be the last to leave an old, or the first to assume a new fashion: "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." He will never be singular in his dress, for, like. all well-bred people, he would escape... | |
 | R. Turner - 1873 - 242 pages
...capacity. 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. Consideration in all matters of business is absolutely necessary ; and before any letter... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...and court. 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. 6. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...ii. Line 126. 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. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. Part... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...makes. POPE. 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. POPE. I have known a word more gentle Than the breath of summer air ; In a listening heart it nestled, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...St. Jude, verse 13. 1. 949. Genesis xxiv. 63. I. 986. Cp. Pope's Essay on Criticism, ii. 335 : *Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' II. 1006-16. The Poet here alludes to the fact that The Task, which he had commenced in... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...by Pope : " 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." P. 199. Marry we must not play or riot too much with them, as in Paronomasies.] Paronomasia... | |
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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. 
