 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - 1841 - 290 страници
...art but of dust; be humble and be wise. ( The latter only of the two following is an Alexandrine. ) A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 200. Seven Iambuses. \ The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 страници
...famous passage from An Essay on Criticism quoted earlier, heaps his scorn on such concluding devices: "A needless Alexandrine ends the Song, / That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along," brilliantly slowing up his own line with the "slow length." It is interesting to observe that, less... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 страници
...streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep.' (Fr. II) 43 ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! (Fr. II) 44 True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd... | |
 | Ian Ousby - 1996 - 452 страници
...alexandrine, and Pope vividly demonstrated the reasons for its relative unpopularity among English poets: 'A needless Alexandrine ends the song/ That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along'. The monometer (onefoot line) is rare, like the heptameter (seven-foot line), also called a 'fourteener'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 страници
...crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threatened (not in vain) with 'sleep.' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some...own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 страници
...by Pope, in his "discussion" of writing style: The reader's threatened (not in vain) with 'sleep.' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. ("An Essay on Criticism") Working with lines in lengths beyond the pentameter, except for the occasional... | |
 | Jean Racine - 2000 - 470 страници
...respectively), few versions have followed the example. Pope's well-known comment continues to bite ('A needless Alexandrine ends the song,/ That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along'). The weight and ponderousness of the metre in EngUsh are a substantial disadvantage, evoking as they... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 страници
...occasion. 15. Uncomplimentary lines borrowed from Pope's Essay on Criticism, Part 2, lines 356-57. "A needless Alexandrine ends the song, / That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along." Bonner repeats this allusion in Boston column 6. 1 6. Linked with the words "went under," possibly... | |
 | Samuel C. Wheeler - 2000 - 320 страници
...Night a Traveler. Perhaps most famously, Pope's Essay on Criticism partially consists of lines such as "A needless Alexandrine ends the song, / That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."2 Much self-reference of interest to critics is less transparent. The text has a "surface" reading... | |
 | Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - 2001 - 412 страници
...Essay on Criticism", a poem that is rich in examples of iconic strategies, comes to mind (11. 354-357): Then, at the last, and only Couplet fraught With some...like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along. The above sequence of iambic pentameters ends in the long (hexametric) alexandrine "That like a wounded... | |
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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... 
