 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Liczba stron: 604
...yesterday ! * And but so mimic anlient wits at best, \s apes our grands.in.-s, in their doublets drcst. ent like a rose when I'm dead. § 62. The Ant, or...We tread thein to dust, and a troop of them dies, judge a poet's song 4 And smooth or rough with them is rightonvroug: In the brightM use tho'thousand... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1809 - Liczba stron: 456
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. I'vpe's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - Liczba stron: 526
...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 if 100 new or old : Be not the first by whom th'e new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - Liczba stron: 406
...newest of the old words, and the oldest of the new, or that they are unattentive to Pope's precept, Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* We must not suppose, that these poetical words never occur at all, except in poetry. Even... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 314
...the 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...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 smooth... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - Liczba stron: 312
...the 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...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 smooth... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - Liczba stron: 282
...advice of our most elegant poet, Pope : In words, as fashions, the same rule will bold, 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. Essay tn Criticism, (4) Cress of great importance te the firs! impression we raafet upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 666
...gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our prandsires in th«r doubtlcts drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old , lie not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the lost to lay the old aside. But rnost by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 536
...best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the Same rule will bold ; 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. But most by numbers judge a poet's soop; [338 And smooth... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - Liczba stron: 198
...Imitár-os casquilhos bem fallantes, R 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 try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
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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. 
