 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 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...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; 349 NOTES. Ver. 337, But most by Numbers,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 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...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; 349 NOTES. Ver. 337. But most by Numbers,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the musick there. These, equal syllables aloue require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep." The reader's threatened, (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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...unvaried chimes,. With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it " whispers through the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...are so much in love 'with, he has the following verses : These equal syllables 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. ray, And shine that superfluity away. Oh impudence...new-built churches round thee fall ? Make keys, build br unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find " the cooling western... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 ; NOTES. judge by parts only of a poem,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...the music there. J 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 ; NOTES. judge by parts only of a poem,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...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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