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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... "
An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse: With Directions for Reading Poetry - Page 49
by Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...to Church repair, . > Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. 345 * Thefe equal fyllablcs alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do joinj And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes,...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...which fome readers are fo much in love with, he has the following verfes. " Thefe equal fyllables alone require, " Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, " While expletives their feeble aid da join, " And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."' The gaping of the vowels in the fecond line,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 pages
...mufic there. Thefe, equal fyllables alone require, . Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 5^« While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : . . While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ;...
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London Review, Volume 11

1780 - 498 pages
...his verles are lame, others hobble on with a very uncouth gait, and too frequently, as Pope fays, " Expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line." Says Juvenal, in one of his fatires ; Facit indignatio 1'crfum otej{, This perhaps is applicable to...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...doftrine, but the mufic there. Theft ej "' 1 i repair, V e. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes* With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes : Where'er...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...fome to Church repair f Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. •* Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes ; Where'er...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...trundles down in a continual line of vith, he has the following veifes. Thefe equal ГуПаЫсз alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble »id i/o join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the fccond...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - 1789 - 376 pages
...church repair, > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...mindsjas fome tochurch repair > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Theie equal fyllablcs alone the foft and tender fork Of a peor worm : Thy btft...And that thou oft provok'ft ; yet grofsly fear'ft : While they ring round the fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill e'xpefted rhymes; Where'er...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...tl« ductiiue, but the mufic there. j Thefe equal fyllablcs aTone require, Tho' oft the ear the often vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one cWll line : While they ring round the tame unvary °d chime;, With fure returns of ftill cxpcfted rhymes;...
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