 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 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 it stow length along. • Essay on Criticiim, 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 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 well when employed to close a period with pomp and solemnity, where the subject makes that... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1832 - 734 pages
...Alexandrine : " Ha mm example strengthens all his lawi, And is himself the great sublime he draws, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slaw length along /' the words of Milton respecting Satan : " He through the armed Jiles Darts his... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...pronouncing phrases and short passages that will bear it, much more rapidly than others. EXAMPLES. Slow — A needless Alexandrine ends the song', That', like a wounded snake', drags its slow length along'. First march the heavy mules securely slow', O'er hills', o'er dales', o'er crags', o'er rocks they... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught 354 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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