 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...  Poésie, versification [etc - Σελίδα 134των Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 429 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 σελίδες
...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...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 σελίδες
...sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the mooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar r When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1810 - 462 σελίδες
...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...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 celebrated... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
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