 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - 488 דפים
...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...the last to lay the old aside. " Essay on Criticism" Part II. Yet Pope himself elsewhere says that great writers, " the men who write such verse as we can... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 דפים
...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 —...whom the new are tried', Nor yet the last' to lay the old aside1. — POPE. 7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault of careless writers; and no language... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 דפים
...by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; * * * * 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.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1871 - 368 דפים
...remember- in our college text-book of Rhetoric is one admirable verse of caution which it quoted : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Especially do not indulge any fantastic preference for cither Latin or Anglo-Saxon, "the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 דפים
...nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze lh' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to l;:y the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 דפים
...moral suasion you can. — Dr. Thomas Gamble (See Children, Mothers Advice, Parenthood) Fashion Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope Take great care always to be dressed like the reasonable people of your... | |
 | Michael A. Bernstein - 1987 - 292 דפים
...a value greater than that in the depression years. 4. Technical change during the interwar years Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope For "Schumpeterian pessimists" such as Hansen, Kalecki, and Weintraub,... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 דפים
...authors used and abused antithesis: it made the construction of periods easier (see period*, R2). Ex: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. A. Pope, 'An Essay on Criticism,' 2.335-6 Albalat, who gives it two chapters in La Formation... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 דפים
...like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. (Fr. II) 39 Be w on the broad-backed wave! Here is a fitting spot to dig Love's gra old aside. (Fr. II) 40 These equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;... | |
 | Kenneth George Wilson - 1993 - 508 דפים
...famous comparison of fashions in dress and other manners with fashions in language: Introduction xi In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. An Essay on Criticism, II. 133-136. The Columbia Guide This guide to Standard American usage... | |
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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 tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
