 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...charma conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...of the insipid 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...seit tendere verauin Non secus ас si óvulo rubricam dirigat uno " IT u-.. Sat. i. с l Who haunt only to divert a few young ladiee, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire * ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 8. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill; But, of the two,... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Booksellers and bookselling - 1839 - 1266 pages
...lines, which have the same rhyme ; as in the following example : " Who haunt Parnassus bat to please the ear, . Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the music there." ) Braces stand before, and keep together, such articles as are of the same import, and are the subdivisions... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...bright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their...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... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...affirms. Of this kind precisely are the three last lines of the following quotation from Pope : — These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten law wordi oft creep in ant dull line 1. But this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...of the insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses: While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The gaping... | |
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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... 
