 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 lehte
...The reader's threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, anH know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 336 lehte
...threatened (not in vain) with * sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham'a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 lehte
...creep,' The reader - threatened (not in vain) with ' sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught said ; the pitying audience melt in tears ; But fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 336 lehte
...creep,' The reader's threatened, 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, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 lehte
...creep,' The reader's threatened, 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, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here... | |
 | Belfegor (fict. name.) - 1837 - 148 lehte
...they suck the substance out, Since one's sufficient to maintain A tithe of lawyers in its train. * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it (low length along." Essay on Criticism. t In Carey's Present State of England, published in 1627,... | |
 | Francisco Solano Constâncio - 1837 - 316 lehte
...etc. Hoje o alexandrino he só usado para diversificar os versos heróicos. Ex. A needless Alexandrino ends the song, That, like a wounded snake , drags its slow length aloug, etc. O verso de quatorze syllabas he hoje sepajado em dois versos alternados, hum de oito, e... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 lehte
...The reader's threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep ;" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,' and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 lehte
...creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught here I need not say) Two travellers What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - 1841 - 290 lehte
...art but of dust; be humble and be wise. ( The latter only of the two following is an Alexandrine. ) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 200. Seven Iambuses. \ The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and... | |
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whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," 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... 
