| Richard Grant White - 1870 - 488 pągines
...the old in language, conforms to usage with the discretion insisted upon in Pope's terse injunction: In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. " Essay on Criticism" Part II. Yet Pope himself elsewhere says that great writers, " the... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pągines
...observed between the two extremes of obsolete words on the one hand, and new words on the other. ' ' In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...whom the new are tried', Nor yet the last' to lay the old aside1. — POPE. 7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault of careless writers; and no language... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1871 - 368 pągines
...remember- in our college text-book of Rhetoric is one admirable verse of caution which it quoted : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Especially do not indulge any fantastic preference for cither Latin or Anglo-Saxon, "the... | |
| John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 pągines
...nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze lh' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to l;:y the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pągines
...yesterday ; 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...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried,' MJ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough,... | |
| 1872 - 710 pągines
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. A douerai. For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : n poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong. In the bright Muse though thousand... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pągines
...yesterday ; 330 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...whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Jonson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers... | |
| Richard Grant White - 1876 - 552 pągines
...the old in language, conforms to usage with the discretion insisted upon in Pope's terse injunction : In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold. Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. " Essay on Criticism" Part II. Yet Pope himself elsewhere says that great writers, " the... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pągines
...be observed between the two extremes of obsolete words on the one hand, and new words on the other. "In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...whom the new are tried', Nor yet the last' to lay the old aside'. — POPE. '7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault of careless writers; and no language... | |
| R. Turner - 1873 - 242 pągines
...elegant; by these means, his letters will always give pleasure, and be intelligible to every capacity. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Consideration in all matters of business is absolutely necessary ; and before any letter... | |
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