 | 1810 - 462 pages
...climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. . " • Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...Sift is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, * And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows : ' Rut when loud surges lash the sounding shore, ' The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent rore. 1 When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, ' The line too labours and the words move... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. [throw. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to The line too labours, and the words move slow, Not so, when swift Camilla scours tlieplain,[maia Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus'" various lays... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—- when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention , and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...Soft and Rougli. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother, numbers flbws> Bat when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slaw motion, imitated.. When Ajax. strives some rock's vast weight to throw), ,The line too labors,... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 pages
...the subject. In the following "verses he has most accu* lately exemplified the precept : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity.... | |
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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... 
