 | 1808 - 408 pages
...doctrine, but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open iowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join,...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhynrs : Where'er you find " the cooling western... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...bright Muse though thousandcharms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who hannt Parnassus but to please their ear; Not mend their...creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sore returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...assometochupch repairs Not for the doctrine, but the mu:ic then.1* J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in ore dull linn : \\ hiletheyringrouhd the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...wrong: in the bright muse tho' thousand charms conspire her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 •who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, not...music 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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...wrong: in the bright muse tho' thousand charms conspire her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, not mend...music there. These, equal syllables alone require, thp' oft the ear the open vowels tire; 345 /hile expletives their feeble aid do join, nd ten low words... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...of the insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...wrong: in the bright muse tho" thousand charms conspire her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, not mend...for the doctrine, but the music there. These, equal sjHables alone require, (ho' oft the ear the oipetv NomV. Mvtt-, 345 expletives their feeble aid do... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses. These equal tyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...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... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...In the bright Muse tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...require, Though oft' the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join, And teu low words oft' creep in one dull line: Aremedar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire : 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...music 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... | |
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Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require... 
