 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 53by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...ten low words oft creep in one dull line ! While they ring round the same unvary'd chimeij With sore returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find...breeze, In the next line it whispers through the trees, Ifcrystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep, The reader's threat'ned, not in vain, with sleep.' Then... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...he has the following verses. ' These equal syllables alone require, ' Though oft the ear the t'len vowels tire, ' While expletives their feeble aid do...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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...the use of continued monosyllables. These equal syllables alone require, Though tfl the ear the often vowels tire . While expletives their feeble aid do...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. In the second of these lines there are three inVOL. 11. 28 \ stances of juncture by the meeting of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses. These equal tyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...an earlier part of the work, with a happy strain of exempliTir-it ion, he had spoken of such as « equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear...they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure return of still expected rhymes. - ; Where'er you find the " the cooling western breeze," In the next... | |
 | 1845 - 816 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...line. While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, AVith sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the ' cooling western breeze,' In the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...f 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...dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chime?, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze,"... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...Not mend their minds, as some to Church repair > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J f T £ These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid to join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes,... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...line. Dry den's Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Did not Pope imitate this paragraph in the following lines ? These equal syllables alone require, .• Though oft...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one d nil line. XiVa. Mel. Syr. Belly'd his sails. Shaks. Tro. and Cres. daxpuosv yi\x<ra<ra. Horn. KXautr/ysXeuf.... | |
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