...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...

...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...

...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...

...sense: Such laboured nothings in so strange a style Amaze the unlearned, and make the learned smile Unlucky as Fungoso in the play, These sparks with...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,...

...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky 83 Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers...

...in the play, These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; sso And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Han in his Humour.1 But most by numbers...

...dresses, according to the mode that prevailed." — Addieon on Medals. 985. He puts it on, Ac. : " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope. Essay on Crittcitm, ii. 883. 996. Age of fabled gold : The ancient poets divided...

...For Pope's conclusion is the only reasonable one, and particularly applicable to pronunciation : — In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike...whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. The time element, however, does not enter into the second phase of the question, that of...

...respect both to obsolete and to new-coined words, Pope's advice seems the best that we can follow : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. 4. Grammatical errors are common to almost all our early great authors...

...breezes blow roses on their cheeks, and its mild moisture gives roundness to their beauty. ANGLICISMS. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old. ESSAY ox CRITICISM. A GREAT deal has been said, and still continues to be said, by British travelers...