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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 Spectator, Volume 4

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...he has the following verses. ' These equal syllables alone require, ' Though oft the ear the t'len vowels tire, ' While expletives their feeble aid do...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 in...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of ..., Volume 2

John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...the use of continued monosyllables. These equal syllables alone require, Though tfl the ear the often vowels tire . While expletives their feeble aid do...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. In the second of these lines there are three inVOL. 11. 28 \ stances of juncture by the meeting of...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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 low words oft creep in one dull line: while they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, with sure returns of still expected rhymes; where'er...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...church re. pair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire "; While expletives their feeble aid do join. And ten low wonls oft creep in one dull line ! While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes. With sure returns...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open Vowels tire j While expletives their feeble aid. do join, And ten low words oft creep in bne dull line: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses. These equal tyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While...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 in...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 low words oft creep in one dull line : VOL. 1. p While Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 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 low words oft creep in one dull line : ^ While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...happy strain of exempliTir-it ion, he had spoken of such as « equal syllables 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 same unvaried chimes, With sure return of still expected rhymes. -...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music, there. These equal syllables 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 same unvaried chimes, AVith sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...
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