...Prosody. Pope criticizes the Spenserian stanza, as used im ics. bv -^riter8 {n nis time, thus : — " 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." 0fSiCfSteS I " The dew | was fail | ing fast,...

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...wrote his lines on Dryden with a reminiscence of Pope's expressions. Progress of Poesy, 104. 1. 271. splay-foot verse. Cf. Essay on Criticism, 354: ' Then...heroic verse. 1. 279. And fluent Shakspeare scarce effac'daline. Ben Jonson, Discoveries (ed. Gifford, 9. 175) : ' I remember the players have often mentioned...

...wrote his lines on Dryden with a reminiscence of Pope's expressions. Progress of Poesy, 104. 1. 271. splay-foot verse. Cf. Essay on Criticism, 354: ' Then...place in English heroic verse. 1. 279. And fluent Sbahpeare scarce ejfac'da line. Ben Jonson, Discoveries (ed. Gifford, 9. 175) : ' I remember the players...

...crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep : " proud boy, Absalom I * ! How was I wont That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...

...crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 'a 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 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...

...crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " Bleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some...a thought, A needless Alexandrine ' ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. * 6. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...

...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...they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song4 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...

...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, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' (Essay on Criticism,) In the year 1712 appeared...

...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, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...