 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 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... | |
 | Tom Hood - English language - 1877 - 348 pages
...chimes, With sure returns of still recurring rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' 10 In the next line it ' whispers through the trees :'...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 's threaten'd — not in vain — with ' sleep.' Then at the last and only couplet, fraught... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 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...threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep : " Then, at the lact and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 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... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1878 - 232 pages
...of the usual rhymes of the sort, to which Pope's criticism might be applied : — "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.' " There surely should be some censorship of churchyard poetry,... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 286 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 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...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep ' : Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 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...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep ' : Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 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...trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,1' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep " ; Then, at the last and only couplet... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, 10 While-expletives their feeble aid do join, Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In the next line it "whispers through the trees ; " is If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with... | |
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the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees;' If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep... 
