 For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th'...  Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 1201898Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1892 - 384 pages
...29. ' Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.' 1 ' Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense.' 2 ' 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.' 8 ' At... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1892 - 316 pages
...For diff' rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort," As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labor'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile, Unlucky,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...: For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court Some by old words to fame have made pretence*, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Unlucky,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd and make the learned smile. Unlucky,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 pages
...For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 325 Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Unlucky,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...For different styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs ivith country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learn'd smile, Unlucky,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1896 - 112 pages
...For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; ^ Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, t Unlucky, as Fungoso in the play, } These sparks with awkward... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...heeding not what else they heard, Dwell weeping on a careless word. MRS. NORTON : The Careless Word. Some by old words to fame have made pretence ; Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense. POPE. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...For different styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs \vith country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learn'd smile, Unlucky,... | |
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