...These lines might furnish an excellent illustration of Pope's couplet ; " Where feeble expletives their aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." the three-feet caesura. Thus the fifth stanza : " Beast, bird, fish, insect, — all alike his laws...

...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...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 music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; With expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words...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...

...but the musie 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 ereep in one dull line : MTiile they ring round the same unvary'd ehimes, With sure returns of still...

...oft the ear the open vowels tire ; • .•,!.•••• While expletives their feeble aid do joiw; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling...

...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require. Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling...

...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,— I...

...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...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...

...church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : 334 Some by old words to fame have made pretence. The adoption of obsolete phrases must be injurious...

...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, —...