 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pagina’s
...with better success, made choice of this very measure, to exhibit slowness; A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along f. It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pagina’s
...ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the view: " VI ** ' A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.' And afterwards, • •• •-• < ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pagina’s
...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 givts offence, " The sound muse seem an echo... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pagina’s
...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 its slow length along, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pagina’s
...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 offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pagina’s
...the LSI and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless AlixanJrim ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. P^c's Essay on Criticism. i A 'R.MICK, adj. [from »bift'i» and ia'j.uen».] That drives away... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pagina’s
...vagues, et le ciel lui-même s'embellit d'une lumière plus sereine et plus pure. A needless alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.* Pori, on auicmn. Swift , dans ses facéties poétiques, s'est amusé a faire des vers de vingt,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...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 its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pagina’s
...and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 156 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length alone, Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishmgly slow,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pagina’s
...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 its slow length along Leave such \o tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow... | |
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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 its slow length along. 
