 | Max F. Perutz - 2002 - 388 頁
..."Tuberculosis: Commentary on the Re-emergent killer," Science 257: 1055-1064. Alexander Pope advised: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Most doctors in Ryan's story seem to have paid more attention to the first rather than the... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 頁
...superficial meaning. Rather than undoing the damage of misreading, the couplet's charm compounds it. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (11-335-36) Once more the question is of tone. Neither Homer nor Shakespeare disobeyed that... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 頁
...th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 324 7:58 In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; /...new, or old: / Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, / Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An Essay on Criticism', 333... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 頁
...much easiness in admitting, any variation." Pope, in his Kssay on Criticism, put it more concisely: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. "A wise physician is a John the Baptist, who recognizes that his only mission is to prepare... | |
 | Elsie Myers Stainton - 2002 - 188 頁
...out an ancient (almost three hundred years ancient), serviceable precept (from Alexander Pope): "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, / Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Trying to monitor language is not easy and is inevitably frustrating when the tide of usage... | |
 | Jonathan Price, Lisa Price - 2002 - 526 頁
...are organizing the sequence of ideas by: • Adding one to another (plus, in addition, moreover) Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism • Moving forward in time (then, last) • Enumerating... | |
 | D. Antonio Cantu - 380 頁
...study brought to bear."25 Chapter 3 Technology Integration in Preservice History Teacher Education Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope At the dawn of the twenty-first century, it is rather inconceivable to... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 2004 - 392 頁
...physician, but one who by caution and conservative approaches — he followed Alexander Pope's caution: "Be not the first by whom the new are tried/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." He never wrote prescriptions for the newest pharmaceutical products; nor did he keep patients... | |
 | Michael B. Fossel M.D. - 2004 - 504 頁
...illusory dangers. The best minatory advice is that of Pope's Essay on Criticism (Beck, 1969, p 403): "be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Telomerase may be a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde molecule with both enormous benefits and unexpected... | |
 | Barnie F. Winkelman - 2005 - 393 頁
...the writings of Alexander Pope, not a financier at all, but a poet. "In words, as fashions . . . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." A variation of this is contained in the statement of one of the Rothschilds that Ms profits... | |
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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. 
