 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
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...doublets dress'd. 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...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old: JBe not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...with them, is right or wrong: : In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 140 Who haunt Parnassus2... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...appropriateness of expression. The follo.'/ing is one of the most admired passages in this poem : " 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...mother, That he might not, beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face too roughly. Shakspere. Most by the numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong. Pope. A surly boatman, rough as seas and wind. Prior. EUMOUE. RUMOUR is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 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 judge a poet's song:23 And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright muse, though thousand charms... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...on high, And swear for Iter — to live — with her — to die. But most — by numbers judge the poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them is — right or wrong. He said ; then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo ! — 'twas white. QUESTIONS. —... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1854 - 154 pages
...same shall be ; That soul, which can immortal glory give To her own virtues, must for ever live. 7. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth...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... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1854 - 514 pages
...this respect : In word*, ns 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. — Рорв. t Except in Greek and foreign words, as system, tyrant, myrrh, alcJtymy, &c.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Businesspeople - 1854 - 180 pages
...respect to its cut and fashion he appears to be of that class who follow the injunction of the poet, " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." He wears a white apron, and before him is a small lighted lamp, in a case, and he is busily... | |
 | James Bruce - Biography - 1854 - 384 pages
...general, can be. The rule for gowns and fashions is the same as that for words and expressions — " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." On this point, the young Antonia, in Mandeville's curious dialogue, has all the reason... | |
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