| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...to the English heroic of five feet, and to the French Alexandrine of six. Dryden. Then, at 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.... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...critique de ceux qui en abusent , et la preuve de l'effet admirable qu'il produit sous une main habile : Then at the last and only couplet fraught "With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, ** * Pour toi la terre se pare de fleurs odorantes , pour toi l'océan sourit et applanit ses vagues... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...arti auctoritatem. Seel utendum modo, nee ex ultimis tenebris repetenda. "f 24. Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," .,. In the next line it " whispers through the trees."{ Trite and unvaried rhymes offend us ; not only as they are destitute of the grace of novelty, but as... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...inimitabilem arti auctoritatem. Sed utendum modo, nee ex ultimis tenebris repetenda."f 84. Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line it "whispers through the trees."J Trite and unvaried rhymes offend us ; not only as they are destitute of the grace of novelty,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...whispers tbrough the trees:" If cbrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's tbreatened (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line it 'whispers...streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,* The reader's threaten' d (not in vain) with 'sleep:' Then at the last and only couplet, franght With some uumeaning... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...streams, " willi pleasing murmurs creep," The render's threatened (not in vain) with <( sleep." Thon, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they cull a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the son», That, like a wounded snake, drag* its slow length... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...chimes, With sore returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeae,' In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees...The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with * sleep ;' Ihen, at the last and only couplet franght With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...streams "withplfasingtuurmurscreep," ' The reader's threaten'd(noiinvain') with" sleep." The,!!, ul est unsaid. The Crow was vex'd. As yesti'r-morn He flew across the ne u thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, [along. That, like u wounded snake, drags its slow... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...chimes, with sure returns of still expected rhymes; where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," 350 in the next line it " whispers through the trees;"...fraught with some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 a needless Alexandrine ends the song, [longthat, like a wounded snake, drags it's slow length aLeave... | |
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