 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...Thefe equal fyllables alone requite,. Tho' f oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives theii 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. Where'er... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...minds; as fome to church repair, ! Not tor the doñrine, but themufic there. I'hefe, 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 unvar y'd chimes. With fure returns of dill expected rhymes ; 34*... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...chuten repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the muûc there. j Thefe, equal fyllablcs alone rtq-.iire, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one doll line : While they ring round the fame unvary"d chimes, With fure returns of ftillctpeâed rhymes;... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...church repair > Not for the doc-trine, but the mufic there. J Thcfe 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 unvaried chime:, With lure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire, 345 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, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er... | |
 | Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...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 pages
...trie mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do 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 - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...obfervations on Waller, has given us a curious anecdote concerning the IMITATIONS. VER.. 346. Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line :] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in everjr line, and helps out his numbers with... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...the in'fipid fmoothnefs, which fome readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...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 monofyllables... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
