 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 páginas
...time will quickly pass, Section iV. " " • * * " • • . ON VERSIFICATION. Many by Number 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 ; Who haunt Parnassus but to... | |
 | George Brewer - 1819 - 110 páginas
...modern high standard and measure, I am not one of those of whom Pope said, " 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 charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus, but to... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...grandsires in their 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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 páginas
...first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet 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 charms conHervoice is all these tuneful fools admire; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please... | |
 | 1853 - 640 páginas
...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 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 but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But rrost by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...country, town, 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,...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...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 but to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge ng winds in tempests roar, Then war shall bathe her wasteful sword in gore : How, if on Swi thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...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 or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 COMMENTARY. Ver. 337.... | |
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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. 
