Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | | NUMBER: | 2021 | AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (16881744) | QUOTATION: | In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the New are tryd, Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside. | ATTRIBUTION: | ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism, Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. E. Audra and Aubrey Williams, vol. 1, p. 276, lines 33336 (1961). | SUBJECTS: | Words | |
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