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" 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 same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling... "
A compendious grammar and philological hand-book of the English language - Page 136
by John Stuart Colquhoun - 1871 - 202 pages
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The Spectator. ...

1712 - 482 pages
...Readers are fo much in Lbve with, he has the following Verfes. Thefe Equal Syllables alone require, Tlx? oft the Ear the open Vowels tire. While Expletives their feeble Aid Ao join t And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line. THE gaping of the Vowels in thefecond Line,...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1799 - 352 pages
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...minds ; as fome to Church repair^ Not for the do&rine, but the mufic there. ! j Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' * oft' the ear the open vowels...join ; And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ' {till-expeded rhymes. Where-e'er...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

1720 - 302 pages
...their minds; as fome to church repair, Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' * oft' the ear the open vowels...join; And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, With fure returns of ftill-expedted rhymes. Where-e'er...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1722 - 294 pages
...their minds; as fame to church repair, Not for the dotfrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' * oft' the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid to join; And ten low words oft' creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes,...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1738 - 310 pages
...Readers are fo much in Love with, he has the following Verfes. Thefe Equal Syllables alone require, The1 oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives...feeble Aid do join, And ten low Words oft creep in sne dull Line. THE gaping of the Vowels in the fecond Line, the Expletive do in the third, and the...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1729 - 314 pages
...Readers are fo much in Love With, he his the following Verfes. Thtfe Equal Syllables alone require, The' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid. do join, jind 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
...infipid Smoothnefs which fome Readers are fo much in Love with, he has the following Verfes. Thefe Equal Syllables alone require, Tho* oft the Ear the...their feeble Aid do join, And ten lo.w Words oft creep inone dull Line\ TH E gaping of the Vowels in the fecond Line, the Expletive^ in the third, and the...
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, and Virgil's and Milton's Arts of ...

William Benson - 1739 - 108 pages
...apprehended from a Pafiage in Mr. Pope's EJJay on Criticifm, that all auxiliary Verbs are mere Expletives. *' While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, *' And ten low Words oft creep in one dujl Line. But this I believe Mr. Pope never intended to adr vance. Milton has ufed them in many Places,...
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An Essay on Criticism: Written in the Year MDCCIX. By Alexander Pope Esq

Alexander Pope - 1758 - 76 pages
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