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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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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next une it < whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,'...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to ehureh repair, Not for the doetrine, but the musie there. noble herd On whose sublime and shady fronts is rear'd...masterpieee, to shew how soon Great things are made, ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. ,. • These equal syllables alone require, • Though oft....•,!.•••• While expletives their feeble aid do joiw; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. , @ / 350 In the next Une it 'whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep/...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the 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 threatened (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...Humor.' While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes : 349 Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 'a threaten'd, not in vain, with ' sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught 354 With...
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The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 784 pages
...results that every year is rendering more plain, more important, and more irresistible. ODE TO SPRING. WHILE they ring round the same unvaried chimes. With...streams ' with pleasing: murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened — not in vain, with ' sleep.' POPE. Solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favont. HAIL,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...equal syllahles alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feehle nymph hegan : ' Say, why arc heauties praised and...all that land and sea afford 1 Why angels call'd, hreeze,' 350 In the next line it 'whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams * with pleasing...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses: These equal syllables alone require. Ttio' 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...
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Spectator (The)

1836 - 1118 pages
...he las the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho* oft the ear the open rowels tire. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels m the second line, the expletive " do" in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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