 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 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. I'vpe's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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...old : be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 nor yet the last to lay the old aside, But most by numbers judge a poet's song; and smooth or rough,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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...old : be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 nor yet the last to lay the old aside, But most by numbers judge a poet's song; and smooth or rough,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...doubtlets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike fantastic, if too new, or old j Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the...the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song10, And smooth, or rough, with them, is right of wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand charms... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Fungosa 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...doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the Same rule will bold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...qual peralta na comedia Que dezestrado, e presumido intenta Imitár-os casquilhos bem fallantes, R And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...the play, \ These sparks with awkward vanity display V What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 \ And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...in the 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...old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
