 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...  Select British Classics - Pagina 161803Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pagina’s
...marble floor Of some old temple wide. In the succeeding lines, we perceive that slow motion is imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pagina’s
...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 move slow. . •Swift and Easy. I Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pagina’s
...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 some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pagina’s
...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 pagina’s
...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....slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pagina’s
...sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pagina’s
...that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift...o'er th' 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 another... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pagina’s
...blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pagina’s
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 406 pagina’s
...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,...o'er th' 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 another... | |
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