 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses cor, respond to the objects which they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the soimding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. The SECOND class of objects,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...weight his huge arm strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng*d words scarce move. PITT. \Vben Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pages
...While the hoarse ocean beats the sounding shore, Dash'd from the strand, the flying waters roar. PITT. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. POPE. Turn, si l.-ïta canunt, hilari quoque carmina vullu Inccdunt, latumque sonant haud segnia verba.... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...blows. And tin1 smooth stream in smoother numhers flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shnrc, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tli row, Tin; line too labour«, and the words moveslow. Not so, u hen swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...dance. MV; not enough no harshness gives offence, .The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When AJaX... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...kind ought to be a caution to others not to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty weight to throw; "The line too labours, and the words...when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main," been all the author meant them in this respest, the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, Andthcsmoothstreaminsmoothernumbcrsflows; s. Jore nods assent. Two hopeful boys And .. line girl reward in - joy?. Xo more solicitous lie [throw, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to The line too labors, and the words move slow:... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the strain when aephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, the sound must seem an echo to the sense: soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, and the smooth stream...throw, the line too labours, and the words move slow; 371 not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...stream in smoother numbers flrws : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.' The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... 
