 | 1866 - 328 páginas
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the...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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 314 páginas
...what shall we little folks do ? It may, perhaps, be better for us to follow the advice of the poet: " 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." As we have now seen that prepositions are expressive... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 páginas
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; 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 fantastic, iftoo new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...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 - 454 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...yesterday ; 330 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 fantastic, if too new or old : * Ben Jonson's 'Every Man out of hia Humour.' Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Fine Gentleman wore Yesterday ! J 330 And but so mimick ancient Wits at best, As Apes our Grandsires in their Doublets drest. 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 try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to... | |
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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. 
