 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pagina’s
...their ear, Not mend their minds, as fome to church repair Not for the doctrine but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft' the...; "While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er you find " the cooling weftern breeze," In... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...but the mufic there. J Thcfe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join. And ten...in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvaried chime:, With lure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling weftern... | |
 | 1708 - 586 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pagina’s
...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but trie mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pagina’s
...their ear, Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : NOTES. V EH. 3 3 7. But mofl ty Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nifi carmine... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 156 pagina’s
...readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The hiatus, or gaping of the vowels, in the Tecond line, the expletive do in the third, and the ten... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pagina’s
...following quotation from Pope : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft thf far thf open vowels tire, While expletives their 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 good effect in enlivening the expression,... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 430 pagina’s
...equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives \hf\T fetbie aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pagina’s
...their minds, as some to church repair Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire,...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chime*, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
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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... 
