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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 133.
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