...much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line :] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers with...

...time and care on his poems, before ,he ventured them out of his hands. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. . Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull Kne:'] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers...

...but the musick there. These, equal syllables aloue 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 same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...the following verses : These equal syllables 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. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...

...the following verses : These equal syllables 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. The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive ' do' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...

...These equal syllable« alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletive» (heir 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 goc effect in enlivening the expression,...

...compositio, multis clausulis concisa, subsultet.— Inst. lib. ix. c. 4. Wai-ton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:'] \ From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers with...

...but the 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 oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er...

...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 low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; NOTES....

...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." Many other of Mr. Barton's lines are too prosaic : tf Even in private life full well we know," &c....