 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...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."-) It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 ;... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...For thou art but of dust; be humble and be wise. (The latter of the two following is an Alexandrine.) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Seven Iambuses. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...thou art but of dust; be humble and be wise. ( The latter of the two following is an Alexandrine.) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. /Seven Iambuses. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 328 pages
...unmeaning thing they call a thought, * Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour. A needless Alexandriiie 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...with 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 ;... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...sleep." Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 155 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... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...sullen horn." " 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." Illustrate, by means of these quotations, the power of sound and time, respectively, to represent sense.... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...octo-syllabic measure. Pope ridicules this practice, though it was a favourite one with Dryden: — " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In Dryden's Ode to Music, the following instances of the two kinds of Alexandrines occur: — "Could... | |
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whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 
