...crystal streams * with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader - threatened (not in vain) with ' sleep :' ht, or any hairs hut these !' CANTO V. SHE said ;...fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line,...

...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain, with ' sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here...

...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened, not in vain, with ' sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here...

...they suck the substance out, Since one's sufficient to maintain A tithe of lawyers in its train. * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it (low length along." Essay on Criticism. t In Carey's Present State of England, published in 1627,...

...etc. Hoje o alexandrino he só usado para diversificar os versos heróicos. Ex. A needless Alexandrino ends the song, That, like a wounded snake , drags its slow length aloug, etc. O verso de quatorze syllabas he hoje sepajado em dois versos alternados, hum de oito, e...

...crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep :" auteur, etc. i ОЯСЕ (says an author, where I need not say) Two travellers languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness...

...another work, has, I think, with better success, made choice of this very measure to exhibit slowness : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, 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,...

...art but of dust; be humble and be wise. ( The latter only of the two following is an Alexandrine. ) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 200. Seven Iambuses. \ The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and...

...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...