 | Horace - 1812 - 198 páginas
...chrystnl streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The leader'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 Akxandiine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...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 páginas
...(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 - 1813 - 704 páginas
...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 - 1816 - 530 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 páginas
...CHow could he? 3 O.ily she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its sluw length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to... | |
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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... 
