 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 ... - Page 81803Full view - About this book
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...sweetnesTrue 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 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...* sleep;' Then at the last, and ouly couplet fraught With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags ita slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, ana know What's roundly smouth, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er"dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow and Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the Brow of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. ' Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengthalong. A rock, torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
....mules securely slow ; O'erhills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still jratliVing force, it smokes, and... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...reader may observe the follo»'mg lines in the view: 1 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 1 hit ter. ofTenc*, The sound must term an echo to the tense. Soft is thr strain whtn Zephyr gently blows, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...Dryden. 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 : 365 NOTES. Ver. 361. Denham's strength,] Sufficient justice is not done to Sandys, who did more to... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...'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 theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...mules securely slow; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow lerigth along. ./? rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...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...And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And... | |
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