 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 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 ;" Thou at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyoud the reach of art. Pope,ECl\oQ. Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it " whispers through the trees :" If erystal streams " with pleasing murmurs ereep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep."... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...and those manipulated in such a way as to convey some distinctness of impression. Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it...The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep': . . . True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn 'd to dance.... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 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.' " On reading these lines we may well say — " O wad some power... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...vowels tire; (Fr. II) 41 And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: (Fr. II) 42 Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it...The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep.' (Fr. II) 43 A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...' ' l TT Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line, it 'whispers thro' the trees;' If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs...'sleep.' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught-» - - r «i- - i - - 1- With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Alexandrine ends... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...chimes, 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;'...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... | |
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the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees;' If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep... 
