 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1876 - 552 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...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...be 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 aside'. — POPE. '7. Ambiguity of expression is a common... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Jonson's ' Every Man... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. 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 n poet's song ; And smooth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...Ben Jonson's And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dresL In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. •I But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song1 ; 'And smooth or rough, with them is right... | |
 | R. Turner - 1873 - 242 pages
...elegant; by these means, his letters will always give pleasure, and be intelligible to every capacity. 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. Consideration in all matters of business is absolutely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. 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. 6. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 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, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. 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. Some to church repair, Not for the... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...obscureness. Jonson's thought in the passage at the head of this note has been adopted by Pope : " 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." Essay on Criticism, 1. 333. P. 199. Marry we must 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 try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
