 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...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. 5. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...court. Some 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. En words, as feshions, 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. These equal syllables alone require, Though, oft the ear... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...in spelling in harmony with the general progress of the language in the past: — " In words, like 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." — Museum. SCHOOL BIOGRAPHY. SAFELY FOLDED.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...rarely found. Part ii. Line 109. Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style. 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. These equal syllables alone require,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...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...too 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 - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...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 aside1. — POPE. 7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...Fungoso in the play,* These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried,' MJ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...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...too new or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Especially do not indulge any fantastic preference for... | |
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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. 
