 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...better advice can be given to the inquirer, than that afforded by Pope in his Essay on Criticism : — " 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." ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPELL LOFFT, ESQ.* O'BR the dark... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimie aneient oud for aid To ehureh and eouneils, whom fantastie, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display Wbatythe fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 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 tot new or old : Be not... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vauity 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Fungosa in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; 33& ebel, and does dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old ; Be not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but to mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires...fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too newer old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. irtll.... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...meretricious ornaments of the gay, or the very peculiar dress of those who run to the other extreme. " In fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the n<nc are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." No. 72.] FASHION. [TUESDAY. THE power of fashion... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1830 - 490 pages
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. " 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's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Fungosa in the play. These sparks with awkward vanity display What the 6ne gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...sense ; Such labor'd nothings in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 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. 14Í Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
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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. 
