| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...cbrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's tbreatened (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 156 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length alone, Leave... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...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...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
...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...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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...streams, " willi pleasing murmurs creep," The render's threatened (not in vain) with <( sleep." Thon, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they cull a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the son», That, like a wounded snake, drag* its slow length... | |
| 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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...streams "withplfasingtuurmurscreep," ' The reader's threaten'd(noiinvain') with" sleep." The,!!, ul est unsaid. The Crow was vex'd. As yesti'r-morn He flew across the ne u thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, [along. That, like u wounded snake, drags its slow... | |
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