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" Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 53
by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pages
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...ear ; 1 Not mend their minds, as some to church repair^ Not for the doctrine but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep ;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...; ") Not mend their minds, as some to church repair /Not for the doctrine but the music there. 3 : These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep ;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...doctrine, but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open iowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join,...unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhynrs : Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In I he next line, "it whimpers thro' the...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...Church repair Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...their ear; Not mend their minds, as some to church repair ! Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sore returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeae,' In the next...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...assometochupch repairs Not for the doctrine, but the mu:ic then.1* J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in ore dull linn : \\ hiletheyringrouhd the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These, equal syllables alone (require, Though oft...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sore returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find " the cooling western...
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The Spectator, Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...of the insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; 345 while expletives their feeble aid do join, and ten...creep in one dull line: while they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, with sure returns of still expected rhymes; where'er you find " the cooling western...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...the ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church re. pair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...While expletives their feeble aid do join. And ten low wonls oft creep in one dull line ! While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes. With sure returns...
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