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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... "
The Spectator: no. 252-321; Dec. 19, 1711-Mar. 8, 1712 - Page 9
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...repair, . > Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. 345 * Thefe equal fyllablcs alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do joinj And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes,...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...are fo much in love with, he has the following verfes. " Thefe equal fyllables alone require, " Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, " While expletives their feeble aid da join, " And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."' The gaping of the vowels in the fecond line,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...mufic there. Thefe, equal fyllables alone require, . Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 5^« While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : . . While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ;...
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London Review, Volume 11

1780 - 498 pages
...his verles are lame, others hobble on with a very uncouth gait, and too frequently, as Pope fays, " Expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line." Says Juvenal, in one of his fatires ; Facit indignatio 1'crfum otej{, This perhaps is applicable to...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...church : Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Theft ej "' 1 i repair, V e. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes* With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes : Where'er...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...repair f Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. •* Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' 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 fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes ; Where'er...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...ГуПаЫсз alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble »id i/o join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the fccond line, the expletive do in the third, and the ten monofyllables in the fourth, give fuch a beauty...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...minds ; as fome to church repair, > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...tochurch repair > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Theie equal fyllablcs alone require, Tho' ender fork Of a peor worm : Thy btft of reft is fleep,...And that thou oft provok'ft ; yet grofsly fear'ft : While they ring round the fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill e'xpefted rhymes; Where'er...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...tl« ductiiue, but the mufic there. j Thefe equal fyllablcs aTone require, Tho' oft the ear the often vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one cWll line : While they ring round the tame unvary °d chime;, With fure returns of ftill cxpcfted rhymes;...
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