A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 156
That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 156
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-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line... - To err is human, to forgive divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line... - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
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As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism,... - Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,
Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism,... - Led by the light of the Maeonian star.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line... - And make each day a critic on the last.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line...
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