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 Spectator - Página 151778Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 páginas
...smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has 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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 páginas
...are so much in love with, he has the following verses. 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 in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line,... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 páginas
...church repair,Not for the doctrine, 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 low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, 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 low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 páginas
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, 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 low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| George Campbell - 1859 - 460 páginas
...last three lines of the following quotation from Pope : " These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."* But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very good effect in enlivening the expression, is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 páginas
...church repair, Not for the doctrine 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 low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| George Campbell - 1860 - 458 páginas
...three lines of the following quotation from Pope : "' " 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 in one dull fine."* But this manner, which, it must be owned,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 páginas
...church repair, Not for the doctrine,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 low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Part ii. Line 133. 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 in one dull line. Part ii. Line 144. A needless Alexandrine ends... | |
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