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" Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 107
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pages
...the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...These equal syllable« alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletive» (heir feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *}. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very goc effect in enlivening the expression,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; e, How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor ? Shall...new-built churches round thee fall ? Make keys, bui same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find " the cooling western...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...compositio, multis clausulis concisa, subsultet.— Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Wai-ton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:'] \ From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers with...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...clausulis concisa, subsultet. — Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Warton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While expktives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:'] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers with...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 23

1824 - 884 pages
...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." the three-feet caesura. Thus the fifth stanza : " Beast, bird, fish, insect, — all alike his laws...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1824 - 890 pages
...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." Many other of Mr. Barton's lines are too prosaic : tf Even in private life full well we know," &c....
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling...
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