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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 British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 424
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...repair, . > Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. 345 * Thefe equal fyllablcs alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do joinj And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes,...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...are fo much in love with, he has the following verfes. " Thefe equal fyllables alone require, " Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, " While expletives their feeble aid da join, " And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."' The gaping of the vowels in the fecond line,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...mufic there. Thefe, equal fyllables alone require, . Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 5^« While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten...creep in one dull line : . . While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...mufic there, Thefe, equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; IQ.T I While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line i While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er...
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London Review, Volume 11

1780 - 498 pages
...his verles are lame, others hobble on with a very uncouth gait, and too frequently, as Pope fays, " Expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line." Says Juvenal, in one of his fatires ; Facit indignatio 1'crfum otej{, This perhaps is applicable to...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...church : Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Theft ej "' 1 i repair, V e. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels...creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes* With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes : Where'er yon find " the cooling...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear...join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line; i Abolita et abrogate retinere, insolentlro nnjnsrlam est, et frivolaa In parvls jactantia;.— Quint,...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...repair f Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. •* Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...minds ; as fome to church repair, > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...tochurch repair > Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. J Theie equal fyllablcs alone require, Tho' ender fork Of a peor worm : Thy btft of reft is fleep,...And that thou oft provok'ft ; yet grofsly fear'ft fame unvaried chimes, With fure returns of ftill e'xpefted rhymes; Where'er you find " the cooling...
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