 | John Bell - 1796 - Počet stránok 524
...not chanc As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc '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 bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - Počet stránok 404
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar f. An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Počet stránok 312
...wounded snake drags its slow length along, And afterwards, ‘Tis not enough no harshrLess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, 4nd the smooth streaip in sinoo;ber numbçrs floes; lut when loud nuges lash the sounding sbui¿, The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Počet stránok 316
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 372
...snake drags its slow length along." And afterwards, " *Tis not enough no harshness givw offence, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense. " Soft is...should like the torrent roar. ' When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, ' The line too labours, and the words move slow i • Not so, when swift... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - Počet stránok 430
...vowels tire, While expletives \hf\T fetbie aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - Počet stránok 218
...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence: The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - Počet stránok 236
...to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Počet stránok 426
...Spectator was worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new preposition or conjunction. 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Počet stránok 422
...Spectator was worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new preposition or conjunction. . 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...should like the torrent roar: "When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
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not enough no harshness gives ofience ; 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... 
