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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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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to ehureh repair, Not for the doetrine, but the musie ; that noble herd On whose sublime and shady fronts...masterpieee, to shew how soon Great things are made, ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...tlie bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 hat flattery, e'en to kings, he held a shame. And...verse or prose the same ; That not in fancy's maze he tlie music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...MANY by Numbers judge a Poet's song ; In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus....•,!.•••• While expletives their feeble aid do joiw; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 unvaried chimes, With 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 - 1832 - 428 pages
...charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,...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 Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...mend their mmds ; as some to church re- known Pair> ^" Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal...alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; When first that sun too powerful beams displays, 200 'It draws up vapors, which obicure its rays...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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 ; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : 334...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 tVho 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 rhymes ; Where'er you find 'the cooling western...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses: These equal syllables alone require. Ttio' 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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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,...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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