...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line it 'whispers through the trees :*...streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with * sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning...

...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...

...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...breeze,' In the next line it ' whispers through the trees :' 10 If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain, with...

...the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the oven vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do...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...

...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...western breeze,' In the next line it ' whispers through tlw trees :' If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain,...

...in the ideas, " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes. With sure returns of still-expected rhymes; Where'er you find the ' cooling western breeze,'...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep.'" We have seen the force of WHI ; take now the radical...

...readers 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...

...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 threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep ;" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning...

...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. e laws, Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause....rarely well, There take (says Justice), take ye each threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning...

...lines. The following lines from the Essay on Criticism illustrate the rules they would enforce : — These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...— oft — creep — in — one — dull — line*. In the next couplet, I think Dryden's name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has...