| James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 pagina’s
...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 western breeze," In the next line it " whispers... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...And 'tis but just to let them live betimes. POPE. Where'er you find the " cooling western breeze," In the next line it " whispers through the trees:"...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep." POPE. Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pagina’s
...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...rhymes : Where'er you find the cooling western breeze, In the next line it " whispers through the trees ;" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep,"... | |
| William Mathews - 1876 - 474 pagina’s
...but it was " a gentle zephyr." Pope satirized this conventional language in the wellknown lines: " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes: Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze.' In the next line 'it whispers through the trees': If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pagina’s
...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...; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," 35o In the next line, it "whispers through the trees" : If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"... | |
| Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 pagina’s
...way as to convey some distinctness of impression. Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees':...streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep': . . . True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pagina’s
...may instinctively guess what the inevitable second line will be when we hear the first, thus — " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...ten low words oft creep in one dull line: (Fr. II) 42 Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' Modem Love 9 She keeps The Topic over intellectual...buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost. With sparkling su threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep.' (Fr. II) 43 A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like... | |
| Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...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...rhymes. Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees'; If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pagina’s
...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-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees;'... | |
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