 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...sleep :" Then, at the last arid 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 ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1824 - 554 pages
...crags, o'er rocks, they go. In the following lines, slow and difficult motion is imitated. A neediest Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The succeeding lines imitate violent and irregular motion, that of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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 tone their own dull rhymes, and knew What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; 359... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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 length along. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
..."sleep:" Then, at the last and only eouplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they eall a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along. Leave sueh to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...securely slow; ( O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult. k needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock torn from the Brow of<t Mountain. Still gathering force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...slow'; O'er hills*, o'er dales*, o'er crags', o'er rocks they go*. Motion slow aAd d'Jficult. A needloss 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*,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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 it's stow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go Motion slum and difficult. A needless Alexandrine enih 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, Whirfe,... | |
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