 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
..."sleep:" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 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 ; NOTES.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...Thou source of all my bliss, of all my woe, Thou found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ! 10. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. i POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art —... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1847 - 208 pages
...praise. 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. Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead waste... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Thou source of all my bliss, of all my woe, Thou found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ! 10. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 1 1. Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art —... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - English language - 1848 - 1134 pages
...been first used hi a French poem, called the Alcxandriad ; — a. relating to the verse so called. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. fhpe. . 1 1 i \ : i • ! i •. uMir, a-lek-se-fdr'mik, \ a. (alexo, ALEXKFHABKICAL, a-Iek-se-fdr'me-kal,/... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...all the feet save one are spondees, and is, therefore, a just emblem of velocity ; that is, of moving a great way in a short time ; whereas the Alexandrine...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."-) It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
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