 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 tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.  The Art of Speech ... - עמוד 60מאת Luther Tracy Townsend - 1879תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 דפים
...mother tongue, while a general regard is paid to the precept expressed in the following couplet. ' Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asid«.' ART. VIII. — Oeuvres inedites de Madame la Baronne de Stael, pubHees par son Jils. 3... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 דפים
...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...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this subject, pages 29, 30, and 58, 59.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 דפים
...garbs, with country, town, and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastick, if too 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 rough, with them, is right or wrong.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 דפים
...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...tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'* Essay on Crilicitm. See the observations on this subject, pages 65, 66, and 105, 106 • Eclectic Review,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 דפים
...yesterday ; 330 ) And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 דפים
...yesterday ; 330 3 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new, or 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 דפים
...grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastie, high streaming, and with cautious tread Shun every dashi try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 דפים
...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...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 waters of the sleepless sea, Too... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 דפים
...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...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 rough with them is right or wrong.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 דפים
...grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastie, east off' the lawful sway ? Rebellion equals all ; and t try'd, 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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