 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
....mules securely slow ; O'erhills, 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 it slow length along, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still jratliVing force, it smokes, and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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 [join. Where Denham's... | |
 | 1822 - 284 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 tune theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Ale^andrjne ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...mules 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 lerigth along. ./? rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 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, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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...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 strength... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 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 slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 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.... | |
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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... 
