 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...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;... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 264 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 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 tone their own dull rhymes, and knew What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 252 lehte
...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',... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 300 lehte
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832
...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 341 lehte
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836
...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... | |
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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. 
