...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, the expletive 'do,' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...

...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the oven 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...

...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, —...

...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...

...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...

...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire * ; the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...would enforce : — These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And —...— oft — creep — in — one— dull— line*. In the next couplet, I think Dryden's name should stand in the place of Denham's. The first line has...

...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." POPE, Essay on Criticism. The principle is precisely similar to that of chanting, where the voice pauses...

...would enforce : — These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And —...— oft — creep — in — one — dull — line*. In the next couplet, I think Dryden's name should stand, in the place of Denham's. The first line has...

...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, the expletive ' do,' in the third, and the ten monosyllables...