 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 頁
...that way. How many of us proceed safely, obeying Pope's cautious dictum in his Essay on Criticism: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Surely it is better to dare? To see afresh? We are only beginning to learn how pervasively... | |
 | Michel Le Gall, Kenneth Perkins - 1997 - 294 頁
...analysis question? Perhaps Alexander Pope's conservative couplet is not bad advice for the historian: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The Maghrib as a unit of analysis has proven useful. It clearly helps historians carry out... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 頁
...yesterday; j 330 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...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 頁
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; 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; But not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
 | Gail Rae - 1998 - 124 頁
...ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought. Pope included an epigram in his "Essay on Criticism": Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. lines 335 -336 see: antithesis, aphorism, epithet, proverb Epilogue - a concluding part... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 頁
...Essay on Man Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always to be blest. 8912 Be old aside. 8913 To George, Lord Lyttelton Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. 8914 The hungry... | |
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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. 
