 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...yesterday ; 330 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 tot new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...yesterday ; And but to 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 newer old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. irtll.... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1830 - 490 pages
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. " 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." Pope's Essay... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In wurde, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the iirbt by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the whole aside. But most by... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...sense ; Such labor'd nothings in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 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. 14Í Flies o'er... | |
 | Readers - 1834 - 500 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. 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. Leave such to... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1834 - 416 pages
...the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. In words, a« fashions, the same rule will hold : Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc tri'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.t PART III. —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...yesterday ; 330 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, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 506 pages
...yesterday ¡ 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandores in their doublets drcss'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 whole aside. But most by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires 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. I But most by... | |
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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. 
