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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 2021 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| 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 try’d, 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 333–36 (1961). |
| SUBJECTS: | Words |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| CONTENTS · AUTHOR INDEX · KEYWORD INDEX · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD | ||||
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