 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...old : Be not the first by whom 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... | |
 | 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...old : Be not the first by whom 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastie, high streaming, and with cautious tread Shun every dashing pool, or idly song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousand charms... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 - 1826 - 396 pages
...yesterday; 33& And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. e smooth chariot cuts the liquid sky. Heaven'e gates...the powers, Heaven's golden gates, kept by the wi tried. Nor yet the last to lay the whole aaide. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
