 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...doublets drest. 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. The CHOICE of HERCULES: FROM THE GREEK OF PRODICUS. fSPENCE) Now had the son of Jove, mature,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...doublets drest. 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. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rongh with them is right or wrong... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...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 judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...doublets 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. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong:... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...doublets 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. But most by nnmbers judge a poet's song, , And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong:... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...ancient times. In wordi, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastie, if tco new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pape'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this subject, pages 59 — 61, and bl,... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...lexicographer. 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. I'vpe's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...doublets drcst. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be they are in our eyes! We tread thein to dust, and a troop of them di old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song 4 And smooth or rough with them is rightonvroug:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 tried, Nor yet 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:... | |
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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. 
