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In Words, As Fashions, The Same Rule Will Hold, Alike Fantastic If Too New Or Old
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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.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 133
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T is with our judgments as our watches,--none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 9...
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 53...
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 32...
To err is human, to forgive divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
And make each day a critic on the last.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...
Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 190...
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 109...
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 177...
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 126...