 | George Campbell - 1801 - Страниц: 404
...another work, has, I think, with better success, made choice of this very measure, to exhibit slowness; A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along f. It deserves our notice, that in this couplet he seems to give it as his opinion of the Alexandrine,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Страниц: 312
...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 harshrLess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Страниц: 316
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 372
...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 givw offence, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - Страниц: 430
...vowels tire, While expletives \hf\T fetbie aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - Страниц: 236
..." deej ' 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, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - Страниц: 218
...with' 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Страниц: 426
...Spectator was worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new preposition or conjunction. 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Страниц: 422
...Spectator was worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new preposition or conjunction. . 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar: "When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Страниц: 420
...worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new prepositiou or conjunction. 28. Soft is t1¿e strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The 
