...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." the three-feet caesura. Thus the fifth stanza : " Beast, bird, fish, insect, — all alike his laws...

...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 unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With 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...

...but the musie 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 ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...

...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...other purpose than to make up the requisite number of feet, a practice thus satirized by Pope : — " While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." There is a third manner of conjugating the active verb, by means of the auxiliary To be. Thus,— I...

...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 unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes : Where'er...

...the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though 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 : 334 Some by old words to fame have made pretence. The adoption of obsolete phrases must be injurious...

...other purpose than to make up the requisite number of feet, a practice thus satirized by Pope : — " While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' There is a third manner of conjugating the active verb, by means of the auxiliary To be. Thus, —...

...the following verses: These equal syllables alone require. Ttio' oft the ear the open vowels tire. kind, I should to the relations of particular persons who are now living, and whom I can The gaping of the vowels in the second line, the expletive 'do,' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...