 | Robert Cohen - 2002 - 296 lehte
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 | Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - 2001 - 412 lehte
...354-357): 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. The above sequence of iambic pentameters ends in the long (hexametric) alexandrine "That like a wounded... | |
 | Robert Cohen - 2002 - 296 lehte
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 | David Crystal - 2001 - 404 lehte
...length makes it unpopular in English a feature captured in the Essay on Criticism hy Pope: A nvedless Alexandrine ends the song, / That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. >*.metrics. alexia >dyslexia. Algeria tpopulation in 1995 estimated at 28,513,0001 The official language... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2002 - 564 lehte
...was so trim a boy. 63. ages . . . along: From Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, lines 356-57: A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 64. "butchered . . . bolyday": From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 141. 65. it. . . Oliver:... | |
 | Neil King, Sarah King - 2002 - 214 lehte
...considered the line to be clumsy, illustrating it in his ESSAY ON CRITICISM thus: alienation effect A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along The alexandrine after the pentameter makes the point, but Pope cheats a little by using monosyllabic... | |
 | William Harmon - 2003 - 566 lehte
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whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 
