 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our graudsires, in their doublets drest. s wat tore arraid When in yon vield you kiss'd the...; Is this the love that ortee to me yo« zed, W he new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...advice of the poet, with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism, is extremely good. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asidei. PART III. — By the use of good words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...poverty will much more readily, and more justly too, be imputed to the writer than to the language. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom tho new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.* 110. By the use of good words new modelled.... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1841 - 416 pages
...The advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold : Alike...fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new «re tri'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. f PART III. — By the use of good words nno-moddled.... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...antigos neste tempo, Faltar como fatiavam, vale o mesmo As apes our gnmdsires, 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 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or... | |
 | Downside sch - 1844 - 384 pages
...this feeling, and, while endeavouring to do this, they stifle their own good sense and reason. " Be not the first by •whom the new are tried, " "Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. " is Pope's rule in the choice of language, and this leads us to the Consideration of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...— Warton. Ver. 328. Unlucky, as Fungoso, $c.] See Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. — P. 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. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1847 - 490 pages
...follow our own recommendation in ihn respect : In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, A like fantastic if too new or old . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, - or yet the laat to lay the old aside. — POPB. t Except in Greek and foreign-- words, as system,... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...moral, sensible, and well-bred man will notaffrontme, and no other can." — cowper. " In words as in fashions, the same rule will hold, alike fantastic,...whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside."— pope. PART II. ETYMOLOGY. When a scholar commences the study of Grammar, it is intended... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is that... | |
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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. 
