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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 Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 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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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...but 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 ; 349 NOTES. Ver. 337. But most by Numbers, fyc."] " Quis populi...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...the bright Muse though thousand charms, conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Wh» haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,. With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 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...some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the musick there. These, equal syllables aloue require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...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...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...In the bright Muse though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; [spire, ers, Twice twenty days shall clouds their fleeces...drain, And wash the pavements with incessant rain. sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 ; NOTES. judge by parts only of a poem, who confine their taste...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...rubricam dirigat uno." Pers. Sat. i. P. Having described the causes of false judgment in Critics who judge Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, -\ Not...repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...rough with them is right or wrong. • lu the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus...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 Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend...alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they...
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