 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 - Strana 161803Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Horace - 1812 - Počet stránok 198
...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 : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - Počet stránok 352
...shore, The hoarse rough verse shoi, hi like the torrent roar* When Ajax strives some rock,s vast wcight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o,er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Počet stránok 348
...sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rork's vast weight to ihrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - Počet stránok 378
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Xot so when'swift Camilla scours the plain, Flic* o'erth' unbending corn, and... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - Počet stránok 704
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Tlie hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the verse moves slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Fiies o'er lh' unbending com, aud skims... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - Počet stránok 712
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loiid surges lash the sounding shore, The hoar.'e, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to threw The lino too labours, and the verse moves slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - Počet stránok 276
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swtft and easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla seours the plain, Flies o'er tfr unbending eorn, and... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - Počet stránok 222
...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....so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - Počet stránok 424
...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....strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - Počet stránok 276
...rock's vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the words move slow. , Swift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; On all sides round the... | |
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