| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sore returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line it " whispers through the trees :" If chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in Tain) with " sleep:"... | |
| Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...line, it " whispers thro' the trees:" If chrystnl streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The leader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep;" Then at the...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Akxandiine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...whispers thro' the trees :" 351 If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threat'ned (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning tiling they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like awounded suake drags its... | |
| England - 1845 - 816 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, AVith sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the ' cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it...creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' stop ;' Then, at the last and only couplet franght With some unmeaning thing they call a thought,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chime?, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line it " whispers through the trees ;" If chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it " whispers through the trees :" In chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...necesse est compositio, multis clausulis concisa, subsultet. Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Where-e'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it...some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Ale^andrjne ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the "cooling western breeze," In the next line it...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep." The reader's threatened, (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning... | |
| 1823 - 732 pages
...he calls them " the sure returns of still-expected rhymes ;" as in this couplet: Where'er you find the cooling western breeze, In the next line it whispers through the Ireei. — Essay on Criticism. * There are some rhymes (and also some ends of verses) so hackneyed,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. Warton. VOL. III. H Where-e'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it...threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last arid only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends... | |
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