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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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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the music there : j 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 chime?, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er...
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A rhyming dictionary

John Walker - 1819 - 734 pages
...polysyllables ending in inr, pronounced in, as masculine J"eminine, discipline, libertine, heroine, etc. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope. ING. Bring-, sing, cling, fling, king, ring, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, wing, wring,...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...repair > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J f T £ These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid to join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes,...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 23

1821 - 494 pages
...Pope imitate this paragraph in the following lines ? These equal syllables alone require, .• Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one d nil line. XiVa. Mel. Syr. Belly'd his sails. Shaks. Tro. and Cres. daxpuosv yi\x<ra<ra. Horn. KXautr/ysXeuf....
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 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, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 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 ; 349...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...time and care on his poems, before ,he ventured them out of his hands. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. . Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull Kne:'] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...which some 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...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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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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,. With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the musick there. These, equal syllables aloue 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 returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...
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