 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 you find "the cooling...  Das Lied von der Glocke - Seite ixvon Friedrich Schiller - 1842 - 37 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1903 - 848 Seiten
...survival of certain local dialects quite justifies this conclusion. Again in the "Essay on Criticism": While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line, there can be no doubt that the rhyme was unimpeachable. Among trades practised in Devonshire... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 Seiten
...doctrine, 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 same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where-e'er... | |
 | 1871 - 878 Seiten
...where it is no blemish but a beauty and congruity when " a needless Alexandrine ends the song, When expletives their feeble aid do join And ten low words oft creep in one dull line," and when even the verses " ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 Seiten
...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...the Musick there. J 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. Where-e'er... | |
 | Jill Neate - 1986 - 300 Seiten
...constant repetition for effect is self-defeating, as witness Alexander Pope in his Essay On Criticism: 'While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' Authors would do well to bear this in mind before committing themselves to paper. After all,... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...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 low words oft creep in one dull line; While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes i - r TT With sure returns of still expected rhymes.... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...but the music there. J 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-e'er... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. 8888 An Essay on Criticism jug, tereu, line. 8889 An Essay on Man Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride... | |
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