...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymcs,and know 3GC Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,...

...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged : A needless Alexandrine ends the song : That like a wounded snake, drags it stow length along. • Essay on Criticiim, 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged...

...line of a couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth well when employed to close a period with pomp and solemnity, where the subject makes that...

...sleep :" 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. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow : And...

...Alexandrine : " Ha mm example strengthens all his lawi, And is himself the great sublime he draws, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slaw length along /' the words of Milton respecting Satan : " He through the armed Jiles Darts his...

...pronouncing phrases and short passages that will bear it, much more rapidly than others. EXAMPLES. Slow — A needless Alexandrine ends the song', That', like a wounded snake', drags its slow length along'. First march the heavy mules securely slow', O'er hills', o'er dales', o'er crags', o'er rocks they...

...sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught 354 With some unmeaning thing they 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, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

...sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

...sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning thing they 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, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And...

...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...