 | John Russell (F.E.I.S.) - English language - 1869 - 176 pages
...travel. rough ; rugged, rude, severe. sonth'-er-ly ; from the south. val'-onr; bravery, strength. " Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught with some unmeaning thing they call a thought." (P.) " How fares our cousin, noble lord of York." (S.) " Courage that grows from constitution, often... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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 "whispers...some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine1 ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. * * * * True ease... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, "With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; "Where'er you find ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! That...leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep : " Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' sso In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 'a threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep : ' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze," 350 In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:"...they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song4 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er yon find the " cooling western breeze," In the next line it...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " Bleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...date, alas ! of modern rhymes ; And 'tis but just to let them live betimes. POPE. Where'er you find the " cooling western breeze," In the next line it...The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep." POPE. Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Gives... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees;'...creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' slqep ;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought,... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 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.' " Yet Pope himself was addicted to these circumlocutions and... | |
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