| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 str.
...but the mufic there. J Thcfe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join. And ten...creep in one dull line : While they ring round the fame unvaried chime:, With lure returns of ftill expefted rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
| 1708 - 586 str.
...damaged by the ufe of low, feeble words, more particulaily when the accent is made to fall on them : While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Ptfr. Inftances, however, occur, where moncfy liable lines are beautiful, particularly in blank verfe.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 str.
...trie mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables 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 : NOTES. VlR.•337. But moft by Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nil! carmine molli... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 str.
...the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables 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 : NOTES. V EH. 3 3 7. But mofl ty Numbers, &c.] " Quis populi fermo eft ? quis enim ? nifi carmine... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 156 str.
...readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone 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. The hiatus, or gaping of the vowels, in the Tecond line, the expletive do in the third, and the ten... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 str.
...the 4 This passage evidently furnished Pope with his wellknown couplet in the ESSAY ON CRITICISM ; " While expletives their feeble aid do join, " And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." highest flight of his fancy is some miserable antithesis, or seeming contradiction ; and in the comick... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 str.
...following quotation from Pope : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft thf far thf open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very good effect in enlivening the expression,... | |
| Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 430 str.
...equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives \hf\T fetbie aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 str.
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chime*, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze,"... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 str.
...but the music there. ) These equal syllables alone require , Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 'While expletives their feeble aid do join , And ten...creep in one dull line: "While they ring round the sama unvary'd chimes j With sure returns of still expected rhimes f "Where'er you find « the cooling... | |
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