 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not tbe first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet tbe last to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticisms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...in the Play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...in the Play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...will hold ; / Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...at best, What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best,. As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old : Be not the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...observe a happy medium between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...garbs, with country, town, and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastick, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Play, -\ These sparks with aukward vanity display > What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 ) And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...Play, -\ These sparks with aukward vanity display . V What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 3 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. KOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, A» heir guarded feet Defy the muddy dangers of the street; While you, with hat unloop'd, the fury dre fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay... | |
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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. 
