| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 páginas
...Unlucky, as Fungoso, Sfc.] See Ben. Jonson's Every Man-out of his Humour. PBut most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 COMMENTARY. Ver. 337.... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...grandsires in their doublets dress'd. 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...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. • lu the bright Muse though... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if tot new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are...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... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 páginas
...his Essay on Criticism : — " 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." ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPELL LOFFT, ESQ.* O'BR the dark waters of the sleepless sea, Too... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge ee the title and the right Against her old superiors first to fight; If she reform by text, thousand eharms eonspire, Her voiee ¡8 all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too the powers, Heaven's golden gates, kept by the winged Hours ; Commission'd in altern whole aaide. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 páginas
...in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too newer old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. irtll. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 121 liilo they ring round the same unvaried chimes, 'itli sure... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too / whole aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 páginas
...by every lexicographer. " 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." Pope's Essay on Criticism. In short, in this, as in every other question on this subject,... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 páginas
...unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 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. 14Í Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Avoid extremes ; and shun... | |
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