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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 107
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...but the musie there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...oft the ear the open vowels tire ; • .•,!.•••• While expletives their feeble aid do joiw; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling...
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The Principles of English Composition: Illustrated by Examples with Critical ...

David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...other purpose than to make up the requisite number of feet, a practice thus satirized by Pope : — " While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." There is a third manner of conjugating the active verb, by means of the auxiliary To be. Thus,— I...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though 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 : 334 Some by old words to fame have made pretence. The adoption of obsolete phrases must be injurious...
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An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language

David Booth - English language - 1835 - 714 pages
...other purpose than to make up the requisite number of feet, a practice thus satirized by Pope : — " While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' There is a third manner of conjugating the active verb, by means of the auxiliary To be. Thus, —...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...equal syllahles alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feehle nymph hegan : ' Say, why arc heauties praised and honour'd most. The wise man's pass same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...the following verses: These equal syllables alone require. Ttio' oft the ear the open vowels tire. kind, I should to the relations of particular persons who are now living, and whom I can The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive 'do,' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the oven 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 western...
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