| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep:" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some...a thought," A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song [along. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praiae the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denham's2 strength, and Waller's sweetness True ease... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...another work, has, I think, with better success, made choice of this very measure, to exhibit slowness ; A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along f . It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the same view. •-- A needless Alexandrine ends the song, " That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. " And afterwards, " 'Tis not enough no harshness givts offence, " The sound muse seem an echo to the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threat'ned (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some...like a wounded snake drags its slow length along, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...crystal streams a with pleasing murmurs creep, » The reader's threaten'd (not in vain, with asleep: » Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some...Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along. Leave such-te tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...very much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the same view. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, Tis not enough no harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...to the English heroic of five feet, and to the French Alexandrine of six. Dryden. Then, at the LSI and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless AlixanJrim ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. P^c's Essay on Criticism.... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...sourit et applanit ses vagues, et le ciel lui-même s'embellit d'une lumière plus sereine et plus pure. A needless alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.* Pori, on auicmn. Swift , dans ses facéties poétiques, s'est amusé a faire des vers de vingt, trente... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...critique de ceux qui en abusent , et la preuve de l'effet admirable qu'il produit sous une main habile : Then at the last and only couplet fraught "With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, ** * Pour toi la terre se pare de fleurs odorantes , pour toi l'océan sourit et applanit ses vagues... | |
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