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...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...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 western...

...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...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 western...

...the Musick there. J These Equal Syllables alone require, Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, 345 While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten...creep in one dull Line, While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes. Where-e'er you find the cooling Western...

...be used, whereas constant repetition for effect is self-defeating, as witness Alexander Pope in his Essay On Criticism: 'While expletives their feeble...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.' Authors would do well to bear this in mind before committing themselves to paper. After all, that most...

..."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 unattractive glottal pop. Expletives are words like...

...but the music there. J 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-e'er you find 'the cooling western...

...to church 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...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 western...

...True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed. 8888 An ale, lug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, 8889 An Essay on Man Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings....

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