 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...These equal syllable« alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletive» (heir feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *}. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very goc effect in enlivening the expression,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; e, How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall...new-built churches round thee fall ? Make keys, bui same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find " the cooling western... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...compositio, multis clausulis concisa, subsultet.— Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Wai-ton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While 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 every line, and helps out his numbers with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...clausulis concisa, subsultet. — Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Warton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While expktives 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 every line, and helps out his numbers with... | |
 | Religion - 1824 - 884 pages
...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 - 888 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
