 whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3951845Full view - About this book
 | Francisco Solano Constâncio - English language - 1837 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | Belfegor (fict. name.) - 1837 - 148 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...The reader's threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep ;" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,' and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught here I need not say) Two travellers and know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - English language - 1841 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 472 pages
...conjurors clean away, While ours at aldermen deals his blows, (Who no great conjurors are, God knows,) * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." Lays Corporations, by wholesale, level, Sends Acts of Parliament to the devil, Bullies the whole Milesian... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...Criticism, has the following well-known couplet, in which an Alexandrine is happily exemplified : — " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wound-ed snake, drags its slow length a-Iong." ALFORD, BATTLE OF. General Baillie with a large body of Covenanters defeated by the marquess... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...[How could he ?] Only she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to complete the measure.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...[How could he ?] Only she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to complete the measure.... | |
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