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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 Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 105
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Outside-in, Inside-out: Iconicity in Language and Literature 4

Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer, William J. Herlofsky, Université Catholique de Louvain, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universität Zürich - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 448 pages
...Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1709; 11. 346-348) we find yet another use of this performative rhyme: And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line, While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With such Returns of still expected Rhymes. Pope here criticizes the artless...
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