 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.  The Spectator ... - Pagina 81803Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mark Smith, Stephen Taylor - 2004 - 366 pagina’s
...have much to humble me. How profitable & comforting those services might be. May my Holy l.'ather i22 'A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along', from Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism (1711). 421 Matthew xiii. 25. 424 Galatians vi. 2. enabled... | |
 | John Bowker - 2005 - 252 pagina’s
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 | Deborah Brown, Annie Finch, Maxine Kumin - 2005 - 478 pagina’s
...alone require, Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join. . . . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song, That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along. . True ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance As those move easiest who have learn'd to Dance.... | |
 | A. Margalit - 2007 - 314 pagina’s
...Alexander Pope who expressed, perhaps unthinkingly, the classical goal of linguistic theory, saying: " 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense." 41 1 plead for an institutional amendment: " 'Tis not enough no harshness gives abuse; The sound must... | |
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