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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... "
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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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...charma 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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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 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...equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the oven vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...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...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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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...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 Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...implies : seit tendere verauin Non secus ас si óvulo rubricam dirigat uno " IT u-.. Sat. i. с l Who 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 Monthly chronicle; a national journal, Volume 5

1840 - 582 pages
...of the rest need not be pointed out. " In the bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." POPE, Essay on Criticism. The principle is precisely similar to that of chanting, where the voice pauses...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...lines. The following lines from the Essay on Criticism illustrate the rules they would enforce : — These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...— oft — creep — in — one— dull— line*. In the next couplet, I think Dryden's name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has...
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Literary leaves, or, Prose and verse: chiefly written in India, Volumes 1-2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...lines. The following lines from the Essay on Criticism illustrate the rules they would enforce : — These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the...— oft — creep — in — one — dull — line*. In the next couplet, I think Dryden's name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses: These equal syllables alone require, Tho' s n The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do,' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 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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