 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' m the next line it ' whispers through the trees ;' If...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... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 Seiten
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn." " Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." Illustrate, by means of these quotations, the power of sound and time, respectively, to represent sense.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes. Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," ISO In the next line it "whispers through the trees:"...streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep." Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er you find the cooling western breeze, In the next line, it 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... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 Seiten
...octo-syllabic measure. Pope ridicules this practice, though it was a favourite one with Dryden: — " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." In Dryden's Ode to Music, the following instances of the two kinds of Alexandrines occur: — "Could... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...happy in a coach, or turtle feast, I might have been an alderman at least. — Chatterton. ALEXANDRINE. THEN, at the last, and only couplet fraught With some...call a thought, A needless alexandrine ends the song, And, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope. ALL. ALMS. 29 ALL. SCEPTRE and power,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 Seiten
...With sure returns || of still expected rhymes ; Where'er | you find || "tho cooling | western breeze," In the next line || it "whispers | through the trees,"...|| " with pleasing | murmurs creep," The reader's | threatened || (not in vain) | with "sleep:" Then | at the last || and only | couplet fraught With... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 Seiten
...much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the same view: — " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." And afterwards, " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 Seiten
...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. 28 See Ben Jonson's " Every Man in his Humour." 28 " Quis populi sermo est ? quis enim ? nisi carmine... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
