 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...i» well expressed by an Alexindrine verse. The The following is an example of slow motion longed : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE. f The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : " THie waves behind impel the waves before,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...creep," Then, at the last and only couplet fraught The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep ;" With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the soug, That like a wounded snake,drags its slow length along. Leave. such to tune their OWH dull rhymes,... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Akxandiine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or Innguishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Dtnham's... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...mules securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion dow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length aloag, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...(not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning tiling they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like awounded suake drags its slow length along, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...is disagreeable to the ear, Mr. Pope ridicules, very ably, the excessive use of this measure : • . A needless alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. English blank verse is a bold and disencumbered mode of versification ; it is free from the full close... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...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,'...Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 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. It doth extremely well when employed to close a period with a certain pomp and solemnity, where the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow And Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the ferotv of a Mountain. Still gath'ring -force, it smokes, and urafd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' stop ;' Then, at the last and only couplet franght With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes ! " — Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song by numbers?" with whom " smooth or rough is... | |
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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... 
