 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 ページ
...cold. Ogden Nash FANATICS The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope FAREWELLS FASHION Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop FATHER No one is... | |
 | Milton Hindus - 180 ページ
...attained its aim) when Alexander Pope wrote in some memorable verses of his Essay on Criticism: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The trouble with this way of stating it is that the advice may be interpreted in the spirit... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 1995 - 262 ページ
...conventional usage. In both fashion and writing, prudent people will heed the advice of Alexander Pope: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Of all the parts of speech, pronouns assume the greatest variety of forms. Thus, they present... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 ページ
...that way. How many of us proceed safely, obeying Pope's cautious dictum in his Essay on Criticism: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Surely it is better to dare? To see afresh? We are only beginning to learn how pervasively... | |
 | Michel Le Gall, Kenneth Perkins - 1997 - 294 ページ
...analysis question? Perhaps Alexander Pope's conservative couplet is not bad advice for the historian: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The Maghrib as a unit of analysis has proven useful. It clearly helps historians carry out... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...yesterday; j 330 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...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 thousand... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 ページ
...What the fine gentleman wore yesterday; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the...rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old; But not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
 | Gail Rae - 1998 - 124 ページ
...ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought. Pope included an epigram in his "Essay on Criticism": Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. lines 335 -336 see: antithesis, aphorism, epithet, proverb Epilogue - a concluding part... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 ページ
...Essay on Man Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is, but always to be blest. 8912 Be old aside. 8913 To George, Lord Lyttelton Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. 8914 The hungry... | |
 | Charles Harrington Elster - 1999 - 452 ページ
...But more than anything, use it to "engage the instrument of the language" and have fun playing it. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope Charles Harrington Elster San Diego, California October 1998 ' From the... | |
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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. 
