 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 str.
...alone I knew would little please, 1010 Let fall the unfinish'd wreath, and roved for fruit ; * " Be Dot the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Papc. Eiuiy an Cril. ii. 338. t " And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage."... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 str.
...moderns in their sense ; * • * * ' In words, as fashions, the same rnle will hold ; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Bnt most by nnmbers jndge a poet's song, And smooth or rongh, with them, is right or wrong... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 str.
...the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancicnt wits at best, As apes ourgrandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions,...fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most hy numhers judge a poet's song; And... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 str.
...history. An obsolete word can be used in poetry when it can not be in prose. Pope's rule is a 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, Ncr yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 328 str.
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old : pe not the first by whom the new are tried, ifNor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 str.
...yesterday ; 130 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets dressed. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old: JBe not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 str.
...the play,22 These sparks with awkward -vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 335 , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song:23 And smooth... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1853 - 324 str.
...barbarism. It has now obtained a permanent establishment, and is justly admitted by every lexicographer. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...if too new or old : Be not the first, by whom the new arc tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1854 - 514 str.
...added, however, that we seldom venture to follow our own recommendation in this respect : In word*, ns fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Рорв. t Except in Greek and foreign words, as system, tyrant, myrrh, alcJtymy, &c.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 180 str.
...respect to its cut and fashion he appears to be of that class who follow the injunction of the poet, " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." He wears a white apron, and before him is a small lighted lamp, in a case, and he is busily... | |
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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. 
