...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old : pe not the first by whom the new are tried, ifNor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by...

...yesterday ; 130 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 fantastic, if too new or old: JBe not the first by whom the new are tried, 135 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by...

...the play,22 These sparks with awkward -vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 335 , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song:23 And smooth...

...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,...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...phrase, mere moderns in their sense: Such laboured nothings in so strange a style Amaze the unlearned, and make the learned smile Unlucky as Fungoso in 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 charms conspire,...