 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - Liczba stron: 458
...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 grandsires, in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old. Be not... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1853 - Liczba stron: 320
...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...if too new or old : Be not the first, by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1854 - Liczba stron: 514
...added, however, that we seldom venture to follow our own recommendation in this respect : In word*, ns fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic...new or old . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Рорв. t Except in Greek and foreign words, as... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - Liczba stron: 352
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; sso 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 : Be... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - Liczba stron: 356
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore 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 : Be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - Liczba stron: 512
...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 grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - Liczba stron: 416
...respect both to obsolete and to new-coined words, Pope's advice seems the best that we can follow : — " 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." GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. 4. Grammatical errors are common... | |
 | 1913 - Liczba stron: 916
...For Pope's conclusion is the only reasonable one, and particularly applicable to pronunciation : — 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. The time element, however, does not enter into the second... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - Liczba stron: 386
...breezes blow roses on their cheeks, and its mild moisture gives roundness to their beauty. ANGLICISMS. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old. ESSAY ox CRITICISM. A GREAT deal has been said, and still continues to be said, by British travelers... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - Liczba stron: 424
...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, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When usage is divided, an expression... | |
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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. 
