 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 like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives...  The British Poets - Page 171866Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 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,...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...strain, when Zrphyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...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...roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...SIGNIFICATION Smooth and rough .verse. Soft is the strain when zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 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, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Xot so when swift Camilla scours the plain, when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...blows, and the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ihe line too labours, and the words move slow; 371 not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies... | |
 | 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 - 536 pages
...are added. [&c. Ver. 368. But when loud billows, Jtc. VOI. XIL Not so when swift. Camilla scours tlie plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each change, the son of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...strain when Zqihyr 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. [throw. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to The line too labours, and the words move slow,... | |
 | 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...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention , and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
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