 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...ancient wits at best. As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho / Nor yet the last to lay the whole aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...sense ; Such labor'd nothings in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...old ; Be not the first, by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last, to lay the old aside. 14Í Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And hut so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires,...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 thousand charms conspire,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 Seiten
...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. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong. In the bright Muse though thousand charms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 Seiten
...the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions,...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asideBut most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...poverty will much more readily, and more justly too, be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Ee not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* „ 110. By the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our graudsires, in their doublets drest. s wat tore arraid When in yon vield you kiss'd the...; Is this the love that ortee to me yo« zed, W he new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 Seiten
...be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will liold ; . 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.* 110. By the use of good words new modelled. The third species... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 Seiten
...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 ; Alike...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asidei. PART III. — By the use of good words new-modelled. The third... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 Seiten
...poverty will much more readily, and more justly too, be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom tho new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* 110. By the use of good words new modelled.... | |
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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. 
