 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 oldal
...moderns in their sense ; * * * * 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...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. FROM ESS AY ON CRITICISM. 305... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - 488 oldal
...in Pope's terse injunction: 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. " Essay on Criticism" Part II. Yet Pope himself elsewhere says that great writers, " the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 oldal
...new words on the other. ' ' 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 aside1. — POPE. 7. Ambiguity of expression is a common fault of careless writers; and no language... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1871 - 368 oldal
...caution which it quoted : — " 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." Especially do not indulge any fantastic preference for cither Latin or Anglo-Saxon, "the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 oldal
...learned smile. Part ii. Line 126. 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 l;:y the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 oldal
...in their doublets dressed. 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...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: In the bright Muse, though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 oldal
...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 or 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 oldal
...laid out bv Pope, who said, "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 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 oldal
...laid out by Pope, who said, "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 lav the old aside." I thought that preferable to a new bill. Mr. KROMER. Before it passed the House... | |
 | Hans-Werner Ludwig - 1979 - 278 oldal
...him with an angry stick. (Richard Eberhard, "The Groundhog") b) Reimpaare: But most by numbers judge a poet's song. And smooth or 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 to please... | |
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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. 
