 | Alexander Crombie - 1853 - 324 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Bruce - 1854 - 384 pages
...general, can be. The rule for gowns and fashions is the same as that for words and expressions — " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." On this point, the young Antonia, in Mandeville's curious dialogue, has all the reason... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...mode, comply ; more sense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. Young. Satire iv. 20 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. She judges of refinement by the eye, He by the test of conscience, and a heart Not soon... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...laborers from Chinese ports.—NY Journal of Commerce, April THE DUNTONIAN SYSTEM OF RAPID WRITING. " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."— POPE. MUCH time and great expense have always been and still are bestowed on chirography... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, 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, I And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong: In the bright muse though thousand... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...yesterday ; sso And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Han in his Humour.1 But most by numbers... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky 83 Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...dresses, according to the mode that prevailed." — Addieon on Medals. 985. He puts it on, Ac. : " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope. Essay on Crittcitm, ii. 883. 996. Age of fabled gold : The ancient poets divided... | |
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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. 
