 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Fungoso in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 33 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...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 or rough... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 432 pages
...reject as they were to adopt them; and they seldom long survive the occasion that gave them birth. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, •...not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the List to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticism. We cannot forbear to join in the complaint which... | |
 | 1806 - 408 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...too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The CHOICE of HERCULES: FROM THE GREEK OF PRODICUS. fSPENCE)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...in the play, 1 These sparks with aukward vanity display > What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; J And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or... | |
 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 pages
...advice of the poet with regard to both the beforementioned sorts of barbarism, is extremely good. • In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are try'd, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday, And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our erandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers jndge a poet's song; And smooth or... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by nnmbers judge a poet's song, , And smooth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or... | |
 | British poets - 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 - 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... | |
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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 try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
