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" These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire' ; While expletives their feeble aid do join 3 ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 52
by Alexander Pope - 1889 - 505 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 4

English essays - 1729 - 314 pages
...Readers are fo much in Love With, he has the following Verfes. Thtfe Equal Syllables alone require, The' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid. do join, And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line. . THE gaping of the Vowels in the fecond.Line, the Expletive...
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The Spectator: ...

1737 - 314 pages
...Readers are fo much in Love with, he has the following Verfes. A Thefe Equal Syllables alone require, Thf oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Linei or THE gaping of the Vowels in the fecond Line, the Expletive*&...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 1

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 392 pages
...and know What's roundly fmooth, or languifhingly flow; And praife the eafy Vigor of a Line, [join. Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire; • -- •, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join ;-.--, And tea low Words oft creep in one dull Line, - ,•.'! While they ring round the fame unvary'd...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...repair, > 345 Not for the dodrine, but the mufic there. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho'-|-oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line; 350 While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With...
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnaffus but to pleafe their ear, ") r Thefe equal fyllables albhe require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire : While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected ...

William Scott (teacher of elocution, Edinburgh.) - Recitations - 1781 - 470 pages
...church repair, Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' of the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low wort's oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvarv'd chimes, With...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...the dodrine, but the mufic there. e; - . 1 i repair, > i. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes. With fure...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...; as fome to Church repair f Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. •* Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...has the following verfes. to throw, The line too labour, and the words mm Thefe equal fyMables »lone require, Tho* oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid Ho join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping of the vowels in the fecond line,...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison ...

1794 - 918 pages
...church repair, ! Not tor the doñrine, but themufic there. I'hefe, equal fyllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes. With...
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