| 1808 - 408 pages
...the play, J Thesesparks with awkward vanity, display У What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ! J And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dresr. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. I ie not... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...the play, ") These sparks with awkward vanity display > What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; J 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 fantastic if too new or old : Be not the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore 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 fantastic if too new or old : Be not the... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...the usages of ancient times. In wordi, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastie, if tco new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pape'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if 100 new or old : Be not the first by whom th'e new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...yesterday ! * And but so mimic anlient wits at best, \s apes our grands.in.-s, in their doublets drcst. ent like a rose when I'm dead. § 62. The Ant, or...emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread t tried, Nor yet' the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song 4 And smooth... | |
| Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...new or old : Be not the first, by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. I'vpe's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...in the play, these sparks with awkward vanity display what the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 and but so mimic ancient wits at best, as apes our...the new are try'd, 335 nor yet the last to lay the old aside, But most by numbers judge a poet's song; and smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong:... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...in the play, these sparks with awkward vanity display what the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 and but so mimic ancient wits at best, as apes our...the new are try'd, 335 nor yet the last to lay the old aside, But most by numbers judge a poet's song; and smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong:... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Fungosa in the play, "These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday, And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the Same rule will bold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the... | |
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