 | British poets - 1809 - 526 str.
...first by whom th'e new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers jndge a poet's song. And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousandcharms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who hannt Parnassus but to please... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 str.
...judge a poet's song 4 And smooth or rough with them is rightonvroug: In the brightM use tho'thousand } car,1^ Not mend their minds: assometochupch repairs Not for the doctrine, but the mu:ic then.1* J These... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 str.
...smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong : la the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, tier voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt...ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, fcot for the doctrine, but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 str.
...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 judge a poet's song; and smooth or...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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 str.
...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 judge a poet's song; and smooth or...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 str.
...jndce a poet's song10, And smooth, or rough, with them, is right ot wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand charms 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 re. pair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | 1810 - 522 str.
...more attention to sense than to sound, to meaning tLni to metre ; and not be of the number of those, ' Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds. ' Though we have taken up the cudgels, therefore, in behalf of Syntax against Prosody, our attitude... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 str.
...will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all. SECTION IV. On Versification. MANY by Number judge a Poet's song} And smooth or rough, with them,...admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, "J Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J Not mend their mind?, as some to Church repair ^> These... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 str.
...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 judge a poet's song, And smooth or...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 haunts Parnassus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 str.
...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 judge a poet's song, And smooth or...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... | |
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Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho... 
