 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 161808Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...will hold ; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet eommon theft, will share the eommon spoil. Let her...her old superiors first to fight; If she reform by though thousand eharms eonspire, Her voiee ¡8 all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...Criticism : — " 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." ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPELL LOFFT, ESQ.* O'BR the dark waters of the sleepless sea, Too... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old ; Be en's golden gates, kept by the winged Hours ; Commission'd in altern whole aaide. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; ana where they m abound, But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wron In the bright Muse tho' thousand charms conspir Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...surprising, because his purgatives are generally very rough and strong. Arbuthnot on Coins Most by the numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong. Pop». Ah ! where must needy poet seek for aid, When dust and rain at once his coat invade1! His only... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 pages
...lexicographer. " 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." Pope's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be r Pope whole aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Wits' nor Critics' pass, As heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass'. POPE. 41 HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. BUT most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...rough, with them is right or wrong : In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...learned 140 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. 14Í Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Avoid extremes ; and shun... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...and court. 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...rough, with them, is right or wrong. In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire ; Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus... | |
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