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...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 song, Which, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along" The dexterity with which the passages here...

...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...song by numbers ? " with whom " smooth or rough is EIGHT or WRONG ? " Who are " the tuneful fools," who, of the Muse's thousand charms, " ADMIRE her tuneful...

...draws thence its heaped intellectual wealth, and transmutes it all into poetical 896 Then, at the lost and only couplet franght With some unmeaning thing...length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes ! " — 897 Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song by numbers?" with whom " smooth or rough...

...creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with t sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length 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...

...couplet from the Essay on Criticism, he assumes that the Alexandrine is condemned and ridiculed : " A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." On this two or three things are to be observed. First, there is an essential difference between the...

...monster: While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low wards oft creep in one dull line." " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But...

...ademptum." While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line" " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But...

...tune their own dull rhymes!"— That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Who are " MOST" that " JUDGE a poet's song by numbers ?" with...thousand charms, " ADMIRE her tuneful voice" only ? The haunters of Parnassus, whose attraction thither is the " PLEASURE" of their ear, not the instruction...

...employed with happy eifect to close a period. Mr. Pope, while denouncing it, has in his own example : "A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake drags its slow length along ;" attested its beauty and fitness for this purpose, though it is too cumbersome to be employed in...