 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pàgines
...observe a happy medium between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this subject, pages 29, 30, and 58, 59.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pàgines
...bounty blest, And Heav'n beholds it's image in his breast. POPE. CHAP. XVII. ON VERSIFICATION. MANY by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or rough,...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Wh» haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...will hold; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet . conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pàgines
...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. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pàgines
...yesterday ; 330 3 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. KOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pàgines
...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if tot new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pàgines
...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...song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong. • lu the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pàgines
...better advice can be given to the inquirer, than that afforded by Pope in his Essay on Criticism : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pàgines
...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...superiors first to fight; If she reform by text, ev'n that eharms eonspire, Her voiee ¡8 all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pàgines
...yesterday; 33& And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. e smooth chariot cuts the liquid sky. Heaven'e 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... | |
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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. 
