 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...circulate." See Foster's " Essays," p. 252, where may be found a masterly description of mock eloquence. But most by Numbers ''judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...appropriateness of 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...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear. Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...copy out the following extracts, marking the caesuras as above, wherever they may happen to fall. 1. 'But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire.' 2. ' A youngster at school, more sedate than the rest, Had once his integrity put to the test ; His... | |
 | 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...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...Pope's Letters, see Readings in English Prose, page 96.) HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. From Essay on Criticism, But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus1 but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers...And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong; (30) In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
