 | Greg Harkin - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...feeble Aid do join, rise, a- rise. a - use. ye more Hun du .] =1= f • pr * = -F ?— 4 r c > . H= And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line, While...Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes. (337-49)20 Wickedly accurate as a critique of smoothly empty coffee-house couplets, this passage misrepresents... | |
 | Stephen Fry - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 396 pages
...the mid 1700s. Alexander Pope was fierce on the subject of bad rhymers in his An Essay on Criticism: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where-e'er you find 'the cooling western breeze', In the next line, it 'whispers thro' the trees';... | |
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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. 
