...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and knoir What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance;...

...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,...

...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 givts offence, " The sound muse seem an echo to the...

...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 harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense....

...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...

...opposed to softness, in writing or painting. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise...easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Walter's sweetness join. fye. Caracci's strenrth, Coregjjio's softer line, Paulo's free stroke, and...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...