...but the music, there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, AVith sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...CHow could he? 3 O.ily she wore a cap that was as white as snow." On reading this one may truly say, " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its sluw length along." In the last line, the words " that was" are plainly redundant, and are used to...

...polysyllables ending in inr, pronounced in, as masculine J"eminine, discipline, libertine, heroine, etc. While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope. ING. Bring-, sing, cling, fling, king, ring, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, wing, wring,...

...the music there : j These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chime?, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes : Where'er...

...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...

...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 slow length along. Jbid 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged ! The waves behind impel the waves before,...

...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...

...* sleep;' Then at the last, and ouly couplet fraught With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags ita slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, ana know What's roundly smouth, or...

...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,...

...following lines ? These equal syllables alone require, .• Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one d nil line. XiVa. Mel. Syr. Belly'd his sails. Shaks. Tro. and Cres. daxpuosv yi\x<ra<ra. Horn. KXautr/ysXeuf....