| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...there : These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep...crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep : " Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep...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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes. Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,'...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with ' sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some... | |
| Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...may instinctively guess what the inevitable second line will be when we hear the first, thus — " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with ' sleep.' " On reading these lines we may well say — " O wad... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the ear the open vowels tire; (Fr. II) 41 And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: (Fr. II) 42 WP; EBW; ErPo; LiTB; NOBE; OAEL-2; OBEV; TrGrPo Modem...deeps In buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost. With spa reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep.' (Fr. II) 43 A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That,... | |
| Arthur F. Kinney - 1996 - 316 pages
...complains of in Part 2 of An Essay on Criticism are, after all, mere caricatures of a recognizable face, Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In...crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep:" (348-53) If fulfillment of expectation is one of the... | |
| Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line; While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes i - r TT With sure returns of still expected rhymes. I ' ' l TT Where-e'er you find... | |
| Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...Not for the doctrine but the music there. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with 'sleep.' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...there. J These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep...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;'... | |
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