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" In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 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... "
The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ... - Page 108
by William Enfield - 1808 - 400 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feehle aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round t.he 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: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...smooth or 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...repair /Not for the doctrine but the music there. 3 : These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...church repair^ Not for the doctrine but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...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, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...bright muse though thousand charms coospire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who hannt Parnassus but to please their ear, 'Not mend their...music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

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...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...of the insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the...tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And tcu low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

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...music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...their car,1^ Not mend their minds: assometochupch repairs Not for the doctrine, but the mu:ic then.1* J lies in looks, not words ; Blund'rers, who level in...He names not me ; but these are hints. Which manife ore dull linn : \\ hiletheyringrouhd the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected...
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Poems

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...alone require, tho' 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: while...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...rough, with them, is right or wroug : In the bright Muse though thousand charms cunspire, Her roice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus...music there. These, equal syllables alone (require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...
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