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... The Spectator - Էջ 151778Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 էջ
...fancy who offend the oar. at a distance." ' " There " is a feeble excrescence 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 :4 1 Fugiemus crebras vocalinm concursiones,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 էջ
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, 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,... | |
| 1872 - 710 էջ
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though ll be new and fresh each As is the golden mystery of sunset, Or the do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : "While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 էջ
...judge a Poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong. * These equal syllables aloue 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,... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 էջ
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though k aD Ǯ [V " 4 , #-K K $ 5 L * P8z Y C d > K do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,... | |
| Alfred Noyes - 1926 - 176 էջ
...mere succession of monosyllabic prepositions and pronouns. The satirical verses of Pope — 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 — would often seem to apply with absolute truth... | |
| Johannes Carl Andersen - 1928 - 246 էջ
...minds ; as some to Church repair, Not for the 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,... | |
| Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 էջ
...smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has 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,... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 էջ
...church repair, Not for the doctrine, 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,... | |
| Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 էջ
...examples, explain what Pope means by "open vowels," "expletives," and "low words": 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 Open vowels are initial vowels that produce an... | |
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