 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...line of a couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth extremely well when employed to close a period with a certain pomp and solemnity, where the... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...' stop ;' Then, at the last and only couplet franght 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 their own dull rhymes ! " — Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song by... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...CHow could he? 3 O.ily 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 sluw length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 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 their own dull rhymes, and knov What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 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 their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needloss Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth extremely well when employed to close a period with a certain pomp and solemnity, where the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged. A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That like a wounded snake, drags its alow length along. Ibid. 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : The waves behind impel... | |
 | 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... | |
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whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 
