| Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...Thefe equal fyllables alone requite,. Tho' f oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives theii feeble aid do join,. And ten low words oft 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 weftern... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...tl« ductiiue, but the mufic there. j Thefe equal fyllablcs aTone require, Tho' oft the ear the often vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one cWll line : While they ring round the tame unvary °d chime;, With fure returns of ftill cxpcfted rhymes;... | |
| 1794 - 918 pages
...minds; as fome to church repair, ! Not tor the doñrine, but themufic there. I'hefe, equal fyllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvar y'd chimes. With fure returns of dill expected rhymes ; 34* Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...chuten repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the muûc there. j Thefe, equal fyllablcs alone rtq-.iire, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one doll line : While they ring round the fame unvary"d chimes, With fure returns of ftillctpeâed rhymes;... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...church repair > Not for the doc-trine, but the mufic there. J Thcfe 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 unvaried chime:, With lure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire, 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...creep in one dull line ; "While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
| Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...damaged by the ufe of low, feeble words, more particulaily when the accent is made to fall on them : While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Ptfr. Inftances, however, occur, where moncfy liable lines are beautiful, particularly in blank verfe.... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' 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 : NOTES. V EH. 3 3 7. But mofl ty Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nifi carmine... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...trie mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' 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 : NOTES. VlR.•337. But moft by Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nil! carmine molli... | |
| Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...the in'fipid fmoothnefs, which fome readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The hiatus, or gaping of the vowels, in the Tecond line, the expletive do in the third, and the ten... | |
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