 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too. labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 páginas
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 páginas
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 páginas
...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 labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...offence ; 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...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 30C. Soft is the strain, &;c.] one But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...IMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, fyc.] " Turn si laeta canunt," &c. Vida, Poet. 1. iii. ver. 403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | 1824 - 408 páginas
...style should always accord with the subject. '• Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." But this accordance, this " echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the en leaves of sprightly green : Old Baucis look'd where...And saw his lengthen'd arms a sprouting wood : New torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words... | |
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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 smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... 
