 | 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... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...mere moderns in their sense. 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...with them is right or wrong : In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 pages
...grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, iftoo new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are...smooth or rough with them is right or wrong : In the brig t Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...hold; Alike Fantastick, 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 Numbers...rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand Charms conspire, Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire, 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 1046 pages
...laid out bv Pope, who said, "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 lav the old aside." I thought that preferable to a new bill. Mr. KROMF.F. Before it passed the House... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1968 - 122 pages
...laid out by Pope, who said, "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 lav the old aside." I thought that preferable to a new bill. Mr. KROMER. Before it passed the House... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...rumbling cart." After pointing out that critics have no discrimination, or proper judgment, and that — " Most, by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong." instead of regarding the work as whole, he attacks with bitter sarcasm the feeble poets whose productions... | |
 | Hans-Werner Ludwig - 1979 - 278 pages
...a strange love, l poked him with an angry stick. (Richard Eberhard, "The Groundhog") b) Reimpaare: 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 for... | |
 | Kenneth George Wilson - 1993 - 508 pages
...fashions in language: Introduction xi 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. An Essay on Criticism, II. 133-136. The Columbia Guide This guide to Standard American usage... | |
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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. 
