 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
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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...snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 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 afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 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 to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 it's slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
..." sleep:" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, eed : In me 'tis noble, suits my birth and state, [know Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pagina’s
...sleep :" Then, at the last arid 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 ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 pagina’s
...crags, o'er rocks, they go. In the following lines, slow and difficult motion is imitated. A neediest 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 Scott - 1825 - 382 pagina’s
...19. 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...echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
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