 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pàgines
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 6. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pàgines
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. Part... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pàgines
...obscureness. Jonson's thought in the passage at the head of this note has been adopted by Pope : " 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, 1. 333. P. 199. Marry we must not play or riot too much with them,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn 'd, and make the learned smile. Part ii. Line 126. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Nor for the doctrine, but the music there. These... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pàgines
...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; ss<> And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pàgines
...hold; Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the New are try'd, 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 tho' thousand Charms conspire, Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire, 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 1046 pàgines
...already passed the House in a preceding Congress, and I followed the rule laid out bv Pope, who said, "In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lav the old aside." I thought that preferable to a new bill. Mr. KROMF.F. Before it passed the House... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1968 - 122 pàgines
...already passed the House in a preceding Congress, and I followed the rule laid out by Pope, who said, "In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lav the old aside." I thought that preferable to a new bill. Mr. KROMER. Before it passed the House... | |
 | Kenneth George Wilson - 1993 - 508 pàgines
...famous comparison of fashions in dress and other manners with fashions in language: Introduction xi In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. An Essay on Criticism, II. 133-136. The Columbia Guide This guide to Standard American usage... | |
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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. 
