 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...grandsires in their doublets drest. 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 thousand... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will holdAlike 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."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...in their 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 last to lay the old aside. ^ ""nut most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...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 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... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — air, V But moat 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...extracts, marking the caesuras as above, wherever they may happen to fall. 1. '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.' 2. ' A youngster at school,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...grandsires in their doublets drest. 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 thousand... | |
 | J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony - 1872
...perfect it in righteousness ? In deeds, 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. PULP CAVITIES. BY CE LATIMER, DDS "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." I AM... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...a style. 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 lay the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...English Prose, page 96.) HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. From Essay on Criticism, 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 Parnassus1 but to... | |
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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. 
