 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. 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. 2. SENTENCES FROM ESSAY ON MAN. I. All nature is but... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...obscnreness. 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." P. 199. Marry we must not play or riot too much with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...ten low words oft creep in one dull line. POPE. Here one poor word a hundred clinches makes. 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. POPE. I have known a word more gentle Than the breath... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 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, Nor for the... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - English language - 1876 - 128 pages
...SANCTIONED BY USAGE, rather than that which is becoming obsolete. Pope wisely and wittily says : — " 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." 93. What do you understand by a barbarism ? An offence... | |
 | American Road Builders' Association - 1912 - 1290 pages
...subject might be expressed in the old quotation, to paraphrase it in a slight degree: "In roads or fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic...too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." The problems of road construction are small and insignificant... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
..."No," was the sarcastic reply, " but by his practices." CHAPTER XIV. COMMON IMPROPRIETIES OF SPEECH. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Be not the first hy whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.— POPE. If a gentleman be to study... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. been Shut out of its lodgings, and let in, At length...To find the right way back again. 940. DRUNKENNES tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.— Лре. 3565. WORDS. Weakness of WHERE deeds pull... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 328 pages
...sanction of time. Pope has formulated the rhetorical law on this subject in this well-known stanza : " 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." J • Poetic, xxii, 3. f Rhetoric, B. IIL C. li. §... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
