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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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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...These equal syllable« alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletive» (heir feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *}. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very goc effect in enlivening the expression,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though dence of wealth ! with all thy store, How dar'st thou...be poor ? Shall half the new-built churches round 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 Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 ; NOTES....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...compositio, multis clausulis concisa, subsultet.— Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Wai-ton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While 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 every line, and helps out his numbers with...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 23

1824 - 884 pages
...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." the three-feet caesura. Thus the fifth stanza : " Beast, bird, fish, insect, — all alike his laws fulfil."...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1824 - 890 pages
...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." Many other of Mr. Barton's lines are too prosaic : tf Even in private life full well we know," &c....
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 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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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...ehureh repair, Not for the doetrine, but the musie there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though is rear'd Nature's great masterpieee, to shew how soon Great things are made, ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With 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...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...repair, 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 joiw; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,...
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