 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best. As apes ourgrandsires in their doubtlets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike fantastic, if too new, or old j Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...fallantes, R 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...yesterday ; 330 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...yesterday ; 330 \ 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...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... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 pages
...and they seldom long survive the occasion that gave them birth. In words, as fashions, the same nile will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new aretry'd, Nor y»t the last to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticism. VOL. I. H We cannot... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not tbe first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet tbe last to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticisms... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...words, as fashions, the Fame rule will hold ; A'ilte fantastic, il'too new or old : Be not the first hy whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* 1 10. By the usf of good words new modelled. The third species of harharism, is that produced... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...at best, What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...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 rough, with them, is right or wrong:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...yesterday ; 330 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 too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our... | |
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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. 
