 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the...will hold ; / Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the...rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 páginas
...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...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330* And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...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 support... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 ) And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...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 support... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, A» apes our grandsires fy the muddy dangers of the street; While you, with hat unloop'd, the fury dre fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 páginas
...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...new or old : Be not the first by 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimie aneient wits at best, As apes our grandsires hom fantastie, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay... | |
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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. 
