...the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc e u-ake thou brought' si mcginger-breojt! Roger. deity them,is right or wrong' : In the bright Muse, though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful...

...extremely good. 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 asidei. PART III. — By the use of good words new-modelled. The third species of barbarism is...

...of expression. P24 BRITISH POETS. The followmg is one of the most admired passages in this poem : " But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...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...

...this feeling, and, while endeavouring to do this, they stifle their own good sense and reason. " Be not the first by •whom the new are tried, " "Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. " is Pope's rule in the choice of language, and this leads us to the Consideration of the...

...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, from critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...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...

...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, fruui critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...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...

...where may be found a character of mock-eloquence drawn by the hand of a master. But most by Numbers1 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...

...critical faculty. And now for another striking instance of sliding, unconsciously, from critic to poet. " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, .. . And...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...

...hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers...In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, •>...

...Roman ear was lesa nice and accurate than the Attic. Pope complains of the opposite extreme : — " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong." Essny, ii.] 265. Idcircone vager. The connection is this. "Because Roman poets are excused for lack...