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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 161
by Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 640 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...the 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...While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...an earlier part of the work, with a happy strain of exempliTir-it ion, he had spoken of such as « equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear...one dull line ; *• While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure return of still expected rhymes. - ; Where'er you find the " the cooling...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

England - 1845 - 816 pages
...bright muse, though thousand charms 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, AVith sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the ' cooling western...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...f Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the music there : j These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chime?, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er you find " the cooling western...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Mu^e though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus...repair > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J f T £ These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...
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A rhyming dictionary

John Walker - 1819 - 734 pages
...Allowable rhyme«, far, ear, &c. en-, prefer and here, hear, &c. regular, singular, war, &c. Who burnt Parnassus but to please their ear, ') Not mend their...repair, \ Not for the doctrine, but the music there.. j Pope. No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular. Pope,...
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Pleasantries: In Rhyme and Prose

George Brewer - 1819 - 110 pages
...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus, but to please their car, Not mend their minds as some to church repair; Not...music there, These equal syllables alone require." It is possible that a man may write Pleasantries under very unpleasant circumstances, satire rises...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 23

Classical philology - 1821 - 494 pages
...line. Dry den's Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Did not Pope imitate this paragraph in the following lines ? These equal syllables alone require, .• Though oft...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one d nil line. XiVa. Mel. Syr. Belly'd his sails. Shaks. Tro. and Cres. daxpuosv yi\x<ra<ra. Horn. KXautr/ysXeuf....
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...wrong: In the bright Muse though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear; Not mend...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 western...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 17

1853 - 640 pages
...rough with them is right or wrong : • In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus...repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there." We now proceed from the flow of language to its force. Here, again, our poet excels. He " points a...
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