 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 - 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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—- when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...to the sense. 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 terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 pages
...lately exemplified the precept : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; . But, when loud surges lash...o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity. The properties of this species -of style... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'erth' unbending corn, and skimsalongthe main.... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...O som deve ser eco do sentido Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...shore, The hoarse rough verse shoi, hi like the torrent roar* When Ajax strives some rock,s vast wcight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o,er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...._ ,. Smooth, and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rork's vast weight to ihrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
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