| John Bell - 1796 - 524 sider
...join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows;... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 sider
...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,... | |
| 1803 - 412 sider
...much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the view: " VI ** ' A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a...to the sense. '' "'•' ' . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in, smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the... | |
| 1803 - 372 sider
...to this passage, as would have been very much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the same view. •-- A needless...along. " And afterwards, " 'Tis not enough no harshness givts offence, " The sound muse seem an echo to the sense. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...this passage, that would have been very much admired in an ancient poet. The reader may observe the following lines in the same view. A needless Alexandrine...And afterwards, Tis not enough no harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows ; And... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 sider
...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, And praise the easy vigour of a line 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sider
...the LSI and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless AlixanJrim ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. P^c's Essay on Criticism. i A 'R.MICK, adj. [from »bift'i» and ia'j.uen».] That drives away poison... | |
| 1806 - 408 sider
...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... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 sider
...sourit et applanit ses vagues, et le ciel lui-même s'embellit d'une lumière plus sereine et plus pure. A needless alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.* Pori, on auicmn. Swift , dans ses facéties poétiques, s'est amusé a faire des vers de vingt, trente... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 sider
...sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 156 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length alone, Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishmgly slow,... | |
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