 whispers through the trees": If 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 unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the...  Satires and Epistles - Page 144by Alexander Pope - 1872 - 164 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...call a thought , A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along. Leave such-te tune their own dull rhimes,... | |
 | 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...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 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...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...cbrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's tbreatened (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 156 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length alone, Leave... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 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...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded suake, drags its glow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 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...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along Leave such \o tune their own dull rhimes, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 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...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave soch to tune their ewn dull rhymes,... | |
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