...conjurors clean away, While 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 whole Milesian...

...Criticism, has the following well-known couplet, in which an Alexandrine is happily exemplified : — " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wound-ed snake, drags its slow length a-Iong." ALFORD, BATTLE OF. General Baillie with a large body of Covenanters defeated by the marquess...

...[How could he ?] Only she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to complete the measure....

...[How could he ?] Only she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to complete the measure....

...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...

...couplet from the Essay on Criticism, he assumes that the Alexandrine is condemned and ridiculed : " A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." On this two or three things are to be observed. First, there is an essential difference between the...

...poetical 896 Then, at the lost and only couplet franght 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 ! " — 897 Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song...

...monster: While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low wards oft creep in one dull line." " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But...

...ademptum." While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line" " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But...

...employed with happy eifect to close a period. Mr. Pope, while denouncing it, has in his own example : "A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake drags its slow length along ;" attested its beauty and fitness for this purpose, though it is too cumbersome to be employed in...