 | 1824 - 884 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 890 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...but the musie there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pagina’s
...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, With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pagina’s
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 pagina’s
...other purpose than to make up the requisite number of feet, a practice thus satirized by Pope : — " While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." There is a third manner of conjugating the active verb, by means of the auxiliary To be. Thus,— I... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : 334 Some by old words to fame have made pretence. The adoption of obsolete phrases must be injurious... | |
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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... 
