 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 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 ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 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, A needless...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, 360 Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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, A needless...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, 360 Where Denham's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep:" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught rogue in need To have a taste, is insolence 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
...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...smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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, A needless...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
...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 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... | |
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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... 
