 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 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 afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...line of a couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. After what has been just said, it is needless to stop for the purpose of pointing out the ingenious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep:" ell. " Right," cries his lordship," l'or a rogue in...indeed : In me 'tis noble, suits my birth and state, [know Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1824 - 554 pages
...crags, o'er rocks, they go. In the following lines, slow and difficult motion is imitated. A neediest Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The succeeding lines imitate violent and irregular motion, that of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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...snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tone their own dull rhymes, and knew What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; 359 And praise the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...vain) with "sleep:" Then, at the last and only eouplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they eall to their viands fell ; nor seemingly The Angel, nor in mist, the eommon gloss Of it slow length along. Leave sueh to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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...alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it's stow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...securely slow; ( O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult. k needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock torn from the Brow of<t Mountain. Still gathering force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
| |
whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (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... 
