 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 lehte
...the impression of slow and difficult motion, as in these lines of Pope:— "A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." "•lost writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1857 - 396 lehte
...six Iambs ? K. — An Alexandrine, as in the second line of this couplet : A need'less Al'exan'drine ends ' the song, That like ' a wound'ed snake, ' drags its ' slow length ' T. — Give an example of the Trochaic, and tell the varieties of that kind of verse. L. — Now... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 lehte
...and «>,! y 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... | |
 | Matthew Boyd Hope - 1859 - 314 lehte
...labor and difficulty : " And ten low words off creep in one dull line." Or, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, " That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." The effect is obviously due, in such cases, to the analogy beR tween the ease and rapidity... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 lehte
...with better success, made choice of this very measure to exhibit slowicss: " A needless Alexandrme ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."1 ft deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 lehte
...unmeaning thing they call a thought, 2 Ben Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. [know Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and What's roundly smooth, or languishingly... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - 1860 - 410 lehte
...the life of Alesander. The second of the following lines is an Alexandrine. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length ulong. A HEMISTICH is the half of a verse or line. (Gr., hemi, half; and stichos, a verse.) A DISTICH... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 lehte
...and rolls impetueus down, and smokes along the plain. , DRYDEN : Lncretius. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE : Essay on Criticism. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flios o'er th' unbending... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 lehte
...with better success, made choice of this very measure to exhibit slowless: "A needless Alexandrine ends the song,. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."1 It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
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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. 
