 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 Spectator ... - Sayfa 81803Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 sayfa
...ease in writing comes from art, not chance, [f>63 As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound...echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr g ntly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers Bows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sayfa
...ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ''Pis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zqihyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud billows lash the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sayfa
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go.. Slow and Difficult Motion* A needless Alexandrine ends the song ; That, like a wounded snake, drags its slpw length, along. A Rock torn from the Brow of a Mountain,.^ Still gathering force, it smokes, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 sayfa
...joinTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 sayfa
...mules securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion dow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length aloag, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain,... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 sayfa
...last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Akxandiine 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 Innguishingly slow ; And... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 sayfa
...is disagreeable to the ear, Mr. Pope ridicules, very ably, the excessive use of this measure : • . A needless alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. English blank verse is a bold and disencumbered mode of versification ; it is free from the full close... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 sayfa
...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow And Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the ferotv of a Mountain. Still gath'ring -force, it smokes, and urafd amain, Whirls,... | |
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