 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 424 str.
...the innovation, and decline the questionable honour of being the first to advertise a novelty. " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last by whom 'tis set aside." Besides which he will find it far easier to become a critic than an author,... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 str.
...lines of Pope : "In words as fashions the same rule doth 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." § 48. PURITY ALSO REQUIRES CONFORMITY TO GRAMMAR AND IDIOM. In order to write pure English,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 str.
...even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. GOLDSMITH. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. Painted for sight and essenced for the smell, Like frigates fraught with spice and... | |
 | William Swinton - 1878 - 394 str.
...Webster. 13. 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 first to lay the old aside. — Pope. II. VERBALS. I. The Infinitive. 184. The infinitive may be used... | |
 | William Swinton - 1879 - 394 str.
...conquered.—Webster. 13. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Jfe not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.—Pope. II. VERBALS. I. The Infinitive. 184. The infinitive may be used as— I. A noun.... | |
 | John Pincher Faunthorpe - 1879 - 380 str.
...be to avoid extremes, and take heed to the injunction conveyed in the following couplet : — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Dress must be suitable to occupation and also to station in life. It is quite possible,... | |
 | 1911 - 994 str.
...on the part of the teachers in the profession is an excellent quality and makes for great good. "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside," is a good motto for the teachers of the youth of the land. Did the college teachers accept... | |
 | 1912 - 582 str.
...believe the advice we used to have given us in the old poetic couplet still stands good in this case: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried. Nor yet the last to cast the old aside." Before you take up and sound the praise of something new and startling, be sure... | |
 | 1898 - 558 str.
...be compared with the older. The progressive practitioner of the day usually has for his motto, "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last the old to lay aside," and, acting upon this guiding principle, he is always ready to accept the new... | |
 | 1921 - 838 str.
...but Fords where I came from. — THOMAS P. HASLAM, University of Nebraska, '24. Pope's Prescience "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." — Pope, speaking of BVD's and "heavies." — ROBERT D. SHEA, Notre Dame, Ind., '22. The... | |
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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
