| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next lino it " whispers through the trees ; " If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader 's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep ; ' Then, at the last and «>,! y couplet, fraught... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...whispers through the trees ; " If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader 's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep ; ' Then, at the last and...some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine11 ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 2 Ben Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' 350 In the next line it 'whispers through the trees :'...streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with *sleep;' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning... | |
| Samuel Lawrence - 1860 - 252 pages
...and rhythm than their sense, and, after inflicting their dulness on the reader for allotted time, " Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A neaileii Alexandrine cuds the song, Which, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." It was... | |
| English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; AVhere'er you find ' the cooling western breeze," In the next line it ' whispers through the trees :' ff crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain, with '... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the " cooling western breeze," In the next line it...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A nocdleas Alexandrine8 ends the s6ng. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengU alQng 6. Leave... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it...vain) with " sleep ; " Then, at the last and only copplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 2 Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line it '...streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain, with ' sleep ;' *A mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo, the god of poetry... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1871 - 584 pages
...the usual rhymes of the sort, to which Pope's criticism might be applied : — " Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line 'it...streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened, not in vain, with ' sleep.' ;I There surely should be some censorship of churchyard poetry,... | |
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