 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...franght With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tiiat, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own doll rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...streams "withplfasingtuurmurscreep," ' The reader's threaten'd(noiinvain') with" sleep." The,!!, ul est unsaid. The Crow was vex'd. As yesti'r-morn He flew across the ne u thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, [along. That, like u wounded snake, drags its slow... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 páginas
...aueet. A needless Alexandrine ends the sonpf, falon?. That, like a vouoded snake, dratrs its slow length Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of of a line Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...song, [along. That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length Leave Such to tune their own dull rhymed and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denbam's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 páginas
...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 broto of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...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, 355 a needless Alexandrine ends the song, [longthat, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length aLeave... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in Tain) with " sleep:" Then at the last and only couplet fraught W'ith some unmeaning thing they call a tliought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, [along. That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, [long, that, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length aLeave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know what's roundly smooth, or lunguish'mgly slow; and praise the easy vigour of a line, 3GO where Denham's strength and Waller's... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...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,... | |
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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... 
