 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1872 - 906 str.
...justify their purchase by many who adopt the advice (in matters of business generally safe) — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." In comparing the horse pitchforks with the machine elevators we may note it as an important point in favour... | |
 | 1847 - 526 str.
...Admires the jay the insect's varying wings ? Or, hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? POPE. 14. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if... | |
 | 1847 - 540 str.
...Admires the jay the insect's varying wings ? Or, hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? POPE. 14. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if... | |
 | 1850 - 310 str.
...miseries of young women, and half their ill tempers, might be avoided by habits of domestic activity. BE not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Pope. THE MOTHER'S ASSISTANT. APRIL, 1850. [No. 4. Written for the Mother's Assistant.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 str.
...good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to any words and phrases, and when one of the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1857 - 802 str.
...manners, or modes of speech, the prudent maxim of the poet would be the safe and sufficient rale: fie not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But to apply this rule of good taste to religions convictions would be to compromise the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 str.
...good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When usage is divided, an expression which is UNIVOCAL is to be preferred... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1858 - 482 str.
...advertise a novelty. Two lines of Pope (I believe), admirably illustrate the middle course:— "JBe not the first by whom the new is tried, • Nor yet the last by whom 'tis set aside. :J Besides which he will find it far easier to become a critic than an author... | |
 | Samuel Jubb - 1860 - 178 str.
...experimental inventions: with reference to such matters one may venture to quote Pope. He says — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, " Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Spinning — Under this head are to be noticed several changes and alterations of n convenient... | |
 | 1860 - 568 str.
...Well indeed do I remember some venerable old gentlemen, on whom the poet's advice was lost — " Bo not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside," — and whose Tory principles would have as soon let them put on a buff waistcoat and blue... | |
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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
