| John Bell - 1796 - 524 psl.
...expected rhymes: Where'er you find the "cooling western breeze," 350 In the next line, it "whispers thro' the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs...With some unmeaning thing they call " a thought," A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 psl.
...thro' the trees :" 351 If chrystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threat'ned (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 psl.
...crystal streams a with pleasing murmurs creep, » The reader's threaten'd (not in vain, with asleep: » 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, draws its slow length along. Leave... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 psl.
...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... | |
| 1806 - 408 psl.
...still-expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it " whispers thro' the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs...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... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 psl.
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 psl.
...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 - 334 psl.
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees...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... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 psl.
...chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze,' In the next line, it ' whispers through the trees...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded suake, drags its glow length along. Leave... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 psl.
...expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it " whispers thro' the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs...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... | |
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