 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 pagina’s
...reader may observe the following Hues in the same view: A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tliiit like a wounded snake drags its slow length along....seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Xephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; Bat when land surges lash the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pagina’s
...sweetuess True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is Ihe strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 340 pagina’s
...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 aftenvards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. .... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pagina’s
...light : To all proportion'd terms he must dis-- pense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et fréta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littore fluctus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pagina’s
...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 soch to tune their ewn dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languisbingly slow, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pagina’s
...dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go. In the following lines, slow and difficult motion is imitated. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The succeeding lines imitate violent and irregular motion, that of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pagina’s
..."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 \o tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pagina’s
...easiest who have learn'd tu dance. Tie not enough no harshness givrs offence, Th« sound mnstseem nn echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And tin1 smooth stream in smoother numhers flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shnrc, The hoarse,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...True ease in writing comes from art, not cJiance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when aephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...chance j As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance, "Tis not enough no harshness gives oticiice, his bold addressing : For how precarious is the blessing ! A wife ne iakes. And now fo Andthcsmoothstreaminsmoothernumbcrsflows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,... | |
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