 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 458 lehte
...ours at aldermen deals his blows, (Who no great conjurors are, God knows,) * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." Lays Corporations, by wholesale, level, Sends Acts of Parliament to the devil, Bullies the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 lehte
...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 offence, The sound must seem an echo to... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 lehte
...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 offence; The sound must seem an echo to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 lehte
...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 offence, The sound must seem an echo to the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 lehte
...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 offenee, The sound must seem an ceho to the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 lehte
...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. afterwards, Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The toun4 must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 lehte
...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 "1~Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 lehte
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 lehte
...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. Oeven Iambuses. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and... | |
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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 the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 
