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" the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep... "
The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and ... - Page 407
by Epes Sargent - 1858 - 478 pages
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Principles of Elocution

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...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

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...
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 5

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...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

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,...
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Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination: Essays ...

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...
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech

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...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

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...
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Selected Poetry

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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