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).