 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Pagina 161808Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1853 - 640 pagina’s
...Felicitous rhyming, however, has often disarmed the just indignation of the public ; for, as Pope has it, " Most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or...with them is right or wrong : • In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pagina’s
...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 are tried, Nor yet the...rough, with them, is right or wrong. In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pagina’s
...bounty blest, And Heav'n beholds it's image in his breast. POPE. CHAP. XVII. ON VERSIFICATION. MANY by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or rough,...with them, is right or wrong ; In the bright Muse though thousand charms, conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Wh» haunt Parnassus... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...will hold; Alike fantastie, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet . though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...picture." Warton. Ver. 328. Unlucky, as Fungoso, fyc.} See Ben. Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. P. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth...In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 COMMENTARY. Ver. 337. But most by Numbers judge,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pagina’s
...picture." Warton. Ver. 328. 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...In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 COMMENTARY. Ver. 337. But most by Numbers judge,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...mere music the first requisite of poetry; — although he can never fall into the ranks of those who * by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong; — yet — inasmuch as it is the province of a University not to create, but to refine, — not to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pagina’s
...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 tried, Nor yet the...with them, is right or wrong : In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagina’s
...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 tried, Nor yet the...song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong. • lu the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
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