 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...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
...mind1; as fome to 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...creep 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... | |
 | 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...creep in one dull line ; "While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...fpeaking of the in'fipid fmoothnefs, which fome readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While...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... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...lines of the following quotation from Pope : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft thf far thf open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...bright Muse tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunts Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he lias the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. in the fourth, gives a beauty to this passage, that would have been very much admired in an ancient... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...smooth or rough , with them is right or wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand charms conspire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 'Who haunt.... Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair y Not for the doctrine , but the music there. ) These equal syllables alone require , Tho' oft the... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...church repair, Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alont require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvaried tliiir.es, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes; Where'er you frnd " the cooling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...equal syllahles alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, 145 While expletives their feehle 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 western... | |
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In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables... 
