 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...rough with them is right or wrong : In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...too new or 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, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 tVho haunt Parnassus... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...mode, comply ; more sense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Young. Satire iv. 30 Be not the first by whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope. Essay on Crit. ii. 33R. 51 And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...mode, comply ; more §ense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Young. Satire iv. 30 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope. Essay on Crit. ii. SSB. M And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastie, if too new or old : Be not the first hy lts — but when would poets men J No place so sacr whole aside. But most hy numhers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong:... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...more sense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Koung. Satire iv. 30 Be not the first hy whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope. Essay on Crif. ii. S3R. sl And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...and a happy appropriateness of expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — 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 but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pages
...happy appropriateness of expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — air, V 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 but... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...spot forbear ; Remember Colin's dreadful fate, And fear to meet him there, T2 ON VERSIFICATION. MANY 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, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...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 use of good words new modelled. The third species of barbarism, is that... | |
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