 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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 drest. En words, as feshions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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 grandsires, in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : * Ben... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...maxime nova.' Idem. P. Buckingham's Essay on Poetry.'} * Unlucky as Fungoso, &c.] See Ben Jonson's And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song1 ; And smooth or rough*... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...rarely found. Part ii. Line 109. Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style. Part ii. Line 126. 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. Part ii. Line 133. These equal syllables alone require,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...observed between the two extremes of obsolete words on the one hand, and new words on the other. ' ' In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried', Nor yet the last' to lay the old aside1. — POPE. 7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1870 - 488 pages
...the old in language, conforms to usage with the discretion insisted upon in Pope's terse injunction: In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 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...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried,' MJ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 368 pages
...remember- in our college text-book of Rhetoric is one admirable verse of caution which it quoted : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...too new or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Especially do not indulge any fantastic preference for... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; ss<> And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dressed. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not... | |
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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. 
