 A needless alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.  Latin Verse - Strana 14podľa Frank Smalley - 1884 - Počet stránok 42Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - Počet stránok 388
...slowly pronounced. This was Pope's own opinion; for, he ohserves, in his Essay on Criticism, that " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags iU slow length alone;. Example. But Pope, notwithstanding, makes use of this verse to descrihe quick... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - Počet stránok 338
...slowly pronounced. This was Pope's own opinion ; for he observes, in his Essay on Criticism, that " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." Example. But Pope, notwithstanding, makes use of this verse to describe quick motion. " Not so when... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 714
...almost any other poet. What an admirable illustration of a lame Alexandrine is the following : — A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The hitch in the verse at the word drags has an excellent effect and completes the image. But Alexandrines... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 354
...almost any other poet. What an admirable illustration of a lame Alexandrine is the following : — A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The hitch in the verse at the word drags has an excellent effect and completes the image. But Alexandrines... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 352
...than almost any other poet. What an admirable illustration of a lame Alexandrine is the following :— A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The hitch in the verse at the word drags has an excellent effect and completes the image. But Alexandrines... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - Počet stránok 288
...Milton. 2. Slow or rapid, solemn or light, easy or painful, uniform or interrupted motions. Example. "A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." Pope. "Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main."... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - Počet stránok 772
...ALEXANDRINE. THEN, at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they 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, thy giving, I assume. And gladlier snail resign, when in the... | |
 | John Stuart Colquhoun - 1871 - Počet stránok 264
...thus : — " Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they 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, | the stars | began | to blink ; each. iii it 1 I heard... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 848
...(1.I5S.) A little learning is a dangerous thing : Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. (l."50 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.— (1. 356.) For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — (1. 615.) And if Mr. Elwin should dispute... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 832
...(1.155.) A little learning is a dangerous thing : Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. (1.215.) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, And like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.— (1. 356.) For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.— (1.625.) And if Mr. Elwin should dispute... | |
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