 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...fallantes: Arremedar antigos neste tempo, Faltar como fatiavam, vale o mesmo As apes our gnmdsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...— Warton. Ver. 328. Unlucky, as Fungoso, $c.] See Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. — P. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...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,... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...moral, sensible, and well-bred man will notaffrontme, and no other can." — cowper. " In words as in fashions, the same rule will hold, alike fantastic,...new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."— pope. PART II. ETYMOLOGY. When a scholar commences... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " 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 aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 328 pages
...Fungoso in the play,2 These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old : pe not the first by whom the new are tried, ifNor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Ncr yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancicnt wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most hy numhers judge a poet's song; And... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1853 - 324 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...if too new or old : Be not the first, by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this,... | |
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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. 
