 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...  Lives - Pàgina 565editat per - 1800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 pàgines
...But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pàgines
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim . Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pàgines
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. 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." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pàgines
...But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pàgines
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 pàgines
...But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pàgines
...'. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow j Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, « Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pàgines
...too labours, and the words move slow. In the next example, the verse resembles swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The following verses exemplify laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step, and many a groan,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pàgines
...403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprize, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! 375 While at each... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pàgines
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprize, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! 375 While at each... | |
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