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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 Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems ...

Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...Thefe equal fyllables alone requite,. Tho' f oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives theii 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. Where'er...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison ...

1794 - 918 pages
...church repair, ! Not tor the doñrine, but themufic there. I'hefe, 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 unvar y'd chimes. With fure returns of dill expected rhymes ; 34*...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the muûc there. j Thefe, equal fyllablcs alone rtq-.iire, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one doll line : While they ring round the fame unvary"d chimes, With fure returns of ftillctpeâed rhymes;...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...as fome to church repair > Not for the doc-trine, but the mufic there. J Thcfe 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 unvaried chime:, With lure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire, 345 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, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 5, Volume 5

1708 - 586 pages
...damaged by the ufe of low, feeble words, more particulaily when the accent is made to fall on them : While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Ptfr. Inftances, however, occur, where moncfy liable lines are beautiful, particularly in blank verfe....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...trie mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : NOTES. VlR.•337. But moft by Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nil! carmine molli...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pages
...obfervations on Waller, has given us a curious anecdote concerning the IMITATIONS. VER.. 346. Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line :] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in everjr line, and helps out his numbers with...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 2

John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the 4 This passage evidently furnished Pope with his wellknown couplet in the ESSAY ON CRITICISM ; " While expletives their feeble aid do join, " And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." highest flight of his fancy is some miserable antithesis, or seeming contradiction ; and in the comick...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...lines of the following quotation from Pope : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft thf far thf open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very good effect in enlivening the expression,...
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