| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...equal syllahles alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feehle nymph hegan : ' Say, why arc heauties praised and honour'd most. The wise man's pass same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pagina’s
...Minds; as some to Church repair, I Not for the Doctrine, but the Musick there. J 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 Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes. Where-e'er you find the cooling Western... | |
| Jill Neate - 1986 - 300 pagina’s
...constant repetition for effect is self-defeating, as witness Alexander Pope in his Essay On Criticism: 'While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' Authors would do well to bear this in mind before committing themselves to paper. After all, that most... | |
| Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pagina’s
..."expletives," and "low words": These equal syllables alone 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 Open vowels are initial vowels that produce an unattractive glottal pop. Expletives are words like... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pagina’s
...but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten...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... | |
| Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...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... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. 8888 An Essay on Criticism jug, tereu, 8889 An Essay on Man Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings.... | |
| Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 pagina’s
...feeble Aid do join, rise, a- rise. a - use. ye more Hun du .] =1= f • pr * = -F ?— 4 r c > . H= 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. (337-49)20 Wickedly accurate as a... | |
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