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 the... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3951845Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 the song, Thatjikea wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...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...wounded snake, drags its slow length along Leave such \o tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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...wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave soch to tune their ewn dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languisbingly slow, And praise... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...threaten' d (not in vain) with 'sleep:' Then at the last and only couplet, franght With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine...wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave snch to tune theirowndullrhymesandknow What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 the song, That, like a wounded suake, drags its glow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go. In the following lines, slow and difficult motion is imitated. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The succeeding lines imitate violent and irregular motion, that of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain.... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...franght With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tiiat, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own doll rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a... | |
| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...i» well expressed by an Alexindrine verse. The The following is an example of slow motion longed : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE. f The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : " THie waves behind impel the waves before,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go. Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A rock torn from the broto of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...creep," Then, at the last and only couplet fraught The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep ;" With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the soug, That like a wounded snake,drags its slow length along. Leave. such to tune their OWH dull rhymes,... | |
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