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...like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. l«eave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength,and Waller's sweetnesTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest...

...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 knov What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And...

...couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needloss Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth extremely well when employed to close a period with a certain pomp and solemnity, where the...

...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged. A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That like a wounded snake, drags its alow length along. Ibid. 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : The waves behind impel...

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...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er"dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow and Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the Brow of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,...

...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. ' Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengthalong. A rock, torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd...

....mules securely slow ; O'erhills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still jratliVing force, it smokes, and...

...'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 theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And...