 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...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...a thought," A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 páginas
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song [along. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praiae the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denham's2 strength, and Waller's sweetness True ease... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 páginas
...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 f . It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
 | 1803 - 372 páginas
...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 afterwards, " 'Tis not enough no harshness givts offence, " The sound muse seem an echo to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 páginas
...chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threat'ned (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some...like a wounded snake drags its slow length along, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...crystal streams a with pleasing murmurs creep, » The reader's threaten'd (not in vain, with asleep: » Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some...Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along. Leave such-te tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...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 afterwards, Tis not enough no harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 páginas
...to the English heroic of five feet, and to the French Alexandrine of six. Dryden. Then, at the LSI and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless AlixanJrim ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. P^c's Essay on Criticism.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...opposed to softness, in writing or painting. 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 Denham's strength and Walter's sweetness join. fye. Caracci's strenrth, Coregjjio's softer line,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...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...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
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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... 
