 | Downside sch - 1844 - Liczba stron: 384
...this feeling, and, while endeavouring to do this, they stifle their own good sense and reason. " Be not the first by •whom the new are tried, " "Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. " is Pope's rule in the choice of language, and this leads us to the Consideration of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Liczba stron: 488
...— Warton. Ver. 328. Unlucky, as Fungoso, $c.] See Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. — P. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1847 - Liczba stron: 490
...follow our own recommendation in ihn respect : In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, A like fantastic if too new or old . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, - or yet the laat to lay the old aside. — POPB. t Except in Greek and foreign-- words, as system,... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - Liczba stron: 300
...moral, sensible, and well-bred man will notaffrontme, and no other can." — cowper. " In words as in fashions, the same rule will hold, alike fantastic,...whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."— pope. PART II. ETYMOLOGY. When a scholar commences the study of Grammar, it is intended... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Liczba stron: 646
...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...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong i : In the bright Muse, though... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - Liczba stron: 472
...advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is that... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - Liczba stron: 596
...moderns in their sense ; * • * * ' In words, as fashions, the same rnle will hold ; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Bnt most by nnmbers jndge a poet's song, And smooth or rongh, with them, is right or wrong... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - Liczba stron: 1502
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Ncr yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - Liczba stron: 458
...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...the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong ; In the bright Muse though... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - Liczba stron: 570
...yesterday ; 130 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dressed. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, 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... | |
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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. 
