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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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;...