 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 the...  Blackwood's Magazine - 395 ページ1845全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 ページ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 ページ
...creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length along. 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... | |
 | 1832 - 734 ページ
...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 ページ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 ページ
...The reader 'a threaten'd, not in vain, with ' sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught 354 With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, 360 Where... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 ページ
...The reader's threatened, (not in vain,) with " sleep :" Then at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless...length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 ページ
...creep,' The reader - threatened (not in vain) with ' sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught said ; the pitying audience melt in tears ; But fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 ページ
...threatened (not in vain) with * sleep ;* Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some umneaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine...length along. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 ページ
...creep,' The reader's threatened, 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, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 ページ
...creep,' The reader's threatened, 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, Which like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. The dexterity with which the passages here... | |
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