| 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, —... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 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 western... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Minds; as some to Church repair, I Not for the Doctrine, but the Musick there. J These Equal Syllables alone require, Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire,...creep in one dull Line, While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes. Where-e'er you find the cooling Western... | |
| Jill Neate - Reference - 1986 - 300 pages
...constant repetition for effect is self-defeating, as witness Alexander Pope in his Essay On Criticism: 'While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' Authors would do well to bear this in mind before committing themselves to paper. After all, that most... | |
| Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
..."expletives," and "low words": 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 Open vowels are initial vowels that produce an unattractive glottal pop. Expletives are words like... | |
| Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. 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 western... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...but the music there. J 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-e'er you find 'the cooling... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. 8888 An Essay on Criticism jug, tereu, 8889 An Essay on Man Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings.... | |
| Greg Harkin - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...feeble Aid do join, rise, a- rise. a - use. ye more Hun du .] =1= f • pr * = -F ?— 4 r c > . H= And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line, While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes. (337-49)20 Wickedly accurate as a... | |
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