...sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

...sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning 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 ; And...

...view: Aji'f'llges Alexandrine ends the song. Tnat like a wounded snake drags its slow length alón;. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when /.ephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the...

...etc. Hoje o alexandrino he só usado para diversificar os versos heróicos. Ex. A needless Alexandrino ends the song, That, like a wounded snake , drags its slow length aloug, etc. O verso de quatorze syllabas he hoje sepajado em dois versos alternados, hum de oito, e...

...they suck the substance out, Since one's sufficient to maintain A tithe of lawyers in its train. * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it (low length along." Essay on Criticism. t In Carey's Present State of England, published in 1627,...

...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. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,' and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

...1. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; A* those move easiest who have learnt to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound...to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlowi, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...

..."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. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ;...

...art but of dust; be humble and be wise. ( The latter only of the two following is an Alexandrine. ) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 200. Seven Iambuses. \ The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and...

...another work, has, I think, 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*. It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,...