 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep 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 breeze," In the next line it " whispers... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...And 'tis but just to let them live betimes. POPE. Where'er you find the " cooling western breeze," In the next line it " whispers through the trees:"...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep." POPE. Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes : Where'er you find the cooling western breeze, In the next line it " whispers through the trees ;" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep,"... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
...but it was " a gentle zephyr." Pope satirized this conventional language in the wellknown lines: " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes: Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze.' In the next line 'it whispers through the trees': If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," 35o In the next line, it "whispers through the trees" : If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...way as to convey some distinctness of impression. Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees':...streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep': . . . True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...may instinctively guess what the inevitable second line will be when we hear the first, thus — " While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ten low words oft creep in one dull line: (Fr. II) 42 Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' Modem Love 9 She keeps The Topic over intellectual...buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost. With sparkling su threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep.' (Fr. II) 43 A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line, While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With...rhymes. Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees'; If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line, it 'whispers through the trees;'... | |
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While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep 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 breeze... 
