 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 - Page 161803Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...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. 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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, Not so, when swift Camilla scours tlieplain,[maia Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus'" various lays... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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,...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a... | |
 | 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 - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn... | |
 | Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...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, and the words move slow.. Swift and easy motion^ Not so when swift Camilia scouts the plain,,... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - Aesthetics - 1812 - 188 pages
...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....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
...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....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.... | |
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