...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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. in the fourth, gives a beauty to this passage, that would have been very much admired in an ancient...

...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 low words oft 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...

...but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alont 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 fame unvaried tliiir.es, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes; Where'er...

...but the music there, J 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 : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...Johnfon require* in an Alexandrine a panic invariably at the fixth fyllable, and IMITATIONS. VE R . 346. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep In one dull Suet] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers...

...invariably at the fixth fyllable, and objefts IMITATIONS. VER. 346. While expletives their feeble tad do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line .-] From Dryden. " He creeps along wiih ten little words in evePy line, and helps out his numbers with...