 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the whole aside. / ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Wits' nor Critics' pass, As heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass'. POPE. 41 HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. BUT most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old asideBut most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 tVho haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...not the first hy whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the whole aside. But most hy numhers aging vein. E'en to the dregs, and squeezings of the brain ; Strain out the la hright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...and a happy appropriateness of expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth...tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...happy appropriateness of expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — air, V But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...and a happy appropriateness of expression. The following is one of the most admired passages : — But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...right or wrong: In the bright muse though thousand charma conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...immortal glory give To her own virtues, must for ever live. 7. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire,...tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new arc 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 conHer voice is all these tuneful... | |
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