 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...if too new, or 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...with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | William Sloan Graham - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...the music of his verse. Pope, also, the great master of "smooth" rhythm, taught the same doctrine, " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire." "Pis plain, the poet agrees with the "tuneful fools," in considering " smoothness" the essential quality... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...In the bright Muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...music there. These equal syllables alone require, "i " Abolita et abrogate retinere, insolentia) cujosdam eat, et frivolse in parvia jactantise." —... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...if too new or old: JBe not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 140 Who haunt Parnassus2 but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...appropriateness of expression. The follo.'/ing is one of the most admired passages in this poem : " But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 126
...their. Allowable rhymes, bar, car, &c., err, prefer, here, hear, &c., regular, singular, war, &c. " Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there." — POPE. « No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear, The whole at once is bold and regular."... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 154
...same shall be ; That soul, which can immortal glory give To her own virtues, must for ever live. 7. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, I And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong: In...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to pleas.e their ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...Wits* nor Critics' pass, As heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass*. POPE. 39. HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. BUT most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
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But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... 
