 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 страници
...insipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with, he has the following verses. *-*i *e• These equal syllables alone require, "-.• Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, •.•n While expletives their feeble aid jo join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 страници
...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... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 страници
...rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand Charms conspire, Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire, Who haunt Parnassus but...some to Church repair, Not for the Doctrine, but the Musick there. The word 'numbers' for Pope and his contemporaries meant something very close to what... | |
 | Peter Kivy - 1995 - 324 страници
...setting that tends to encourage and facilitate musical listening. (We all recall Pope's couplet: ". . . as some to Church repair,/ Not for the doctrine but the music there.'") But as pointless as it would be to argue the obvious, preach to the converted that Bach's church cantatas... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 страници
...admire; 340 - - i - - ir - r • r ' Not mend their minds; as some to Church repair' "I - T II - I - T ' Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 страници
...with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire, Who haunt Parnassus but...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 страници
...In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, J Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 страници
...But thousands die, without or this or Die, and endow a college, or a cat. 3313 An Essay on Criticism As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 3314 An Essay on Criticism The bookful blockhead, ignorant ly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страници
...want of art. 8877 An Essay on Criticism Expresslon is the dress of thought. 8878 An Essay on Criticism this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and dis 8879 An Essay on Criticism True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 страници
...wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted in Bettina von Arnim, Letter to Goethe (1810) 21 As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711) 22 1. In these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches;... | |
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Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there... 
