 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Michel Le Gall, Kenneth Perkins - 1997 - 294 lehte
...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... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 lehte
...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... | |
 | Gail Rae - 1998 - 124 lehte
...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 lehte
...wore 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; But not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Max F. Perutz - 2002 - 388 lehte
..."Tuberculosis: Commentary on the Re-emergent killer," Science 257: 1055-1064. Alexander Pope advised: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Most doctors in Ryan's story seem to have paid more attention to the first rather than 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. 
