| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 頁
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 \ And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the...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 judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 頁
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...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 judge a poet's song, And smooth... | |
| Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 頁
...and they seldom long survive the occasion that gave them birth. In words, as fashions, the same nile will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new aretry'd, Nor y»t the last to lay the old aside. Pope's Essay on Criticism. VOL. I. H We cannot... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 頁
...at best, What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...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 though thousand... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 頁
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the...rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 頁
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the...will hold ; / Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in hothing from prose. Our... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 頁
...mother tongue, while a general regard is paid to the precept expressed in the following couplet. ' Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asid«.' ART. VIII. — Oeuvres inedites de Madame la Baronne de Stael, pubHees par son Jils. 3... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 頁
...observe a happy medium between too great, and too little reverence for the usages of ancient times. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope'i Essay on Criticism. See the observations on this subject, pages 29, 30, and 58, 59.... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 頁
...garbs, with country, town, and court. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastick, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new...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 though thousand... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 頁
...fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330* And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. NOTES. verse, where the thought or image does not... | |
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