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...better advice can be given to the inquirer, than that afforded by Pope in his Essay on Criticism : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...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...

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...Fungosa in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; 33& ebel, and does whole aaide. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or...

...meretricious ornaments of the gay, or the very peculiar dress of those who run to the other extreme. " In fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the n<nc are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." No. 72.] FASHION. [TUESDAY. THE power of fashion...

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...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...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,...

...ancient wits at best. As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, tho / whole aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or...

...sense ; Such labor'd nothings in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned 140 In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...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...