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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. "
A Grammar Containing the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language: For ... - Page 120
by William Swinton - 1880 - 113 pages
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1796 - 504 pages
...yesterday ; 55e And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires'in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if to new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...the poet with regard to both the forernentioned sorts of barbarism^ is extremely good.;-...h . ..1 In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be" not tue first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside f. PAST III....By...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1804 - 218 pages
...yesterday ; .And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our 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 try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...yesterday ; 33 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our 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 try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - Books and reading - 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, • ' Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the List to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...These Wha 1 ,il but so mimic ancient w its at best, As apes our grandsircs, in their doublets dresr. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Fie not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...yesterday; And but so mimic ancient wits at best; As apes our 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 tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The CHOICE of HERCULES:...
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Poetical Works

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 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. But most by numbers...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

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 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. But most by nnmbers...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

English poetry - 1809 - 488 pages
...yesterday; J And but so mimic ancient wits at beat, As apes our 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 tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...
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