 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...wintry time will quickly pass, Section iV. " " • * * " • • . ON VERSIFICATION. Many by Number judge a Poet's song; » • And Smooth or rough, with...admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, "J Not mend their minds, as some to Church repair y Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J Gg... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...Number judge a Poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Mu^e though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all...repair > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J f T £ These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives... | |
 | John Walker - 1819 - 734 pages
...Allowable rhyme«, far, ear, &c. en-, prefer and here, hear, &c. regular, singular, war, &c. Who burnt Parnassus but to please their ear, ') Not mend their...repair, \ Not for the doctrine, but the music there.. j Pope. No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular. Pope,... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...Felicitous rhyming, however, has often disarmed the just indignation of the public ; for, as Pope has it, " Most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or...repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there." We now proceed from the flow of language to its force. Here, again, our poet excels. He " points a... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or...or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousand charms conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...T Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But rrost by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth or rough,...with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or...some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the musick there. These, equal syllables aloue require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...bounty blest, And Heav'n beholds it's image in his breast. POPE. CHAP. XVII. ON VERSIFICATION. MANY by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or rough,...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Wh» haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...rubricam dirigat uno." Pers. Sat. i. P. Having described the causes of false judgment in Critics who judge Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, -\ Not...repair, > Not for the doctrine, but the music there. J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But But, if the threatening winds in tempests roar, Then...wasteful sword in gore : How, if on Swithin's feast the conHer voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; [spire, Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear,... | |
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But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough 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 to please their ear, Not mend their minds... 
