 | British poets - 1822 - 276 sidor
...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...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denham's... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sidor
...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...snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 sidor
...couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Ale^andrjne ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 sidor
...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 song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sidor
...pleasing murmurs creep." The reader's threatened, (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call...Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sidor
...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...alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth, or... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 sidor
...very 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 afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | 1823 - 872 sidor
...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. After what has been just said, it is needless to stop for the purpose of pointing out the ingenious... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 sidor
...very 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 ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 sidor
...pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last arid only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call...(Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's... | |
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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... 
