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The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ... - Page 183
by Lindley Murray - 1839 - 253 pages
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Quarterly Review, Volumes 27-28

1822 - 1148 pages
...emendations suggested by the character of their vernacular tongue. Let the elaborate lines of Pope, Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother murmurs flows, Had Bentley been born and educated in a southern country, perhaps his theory of the...
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...The hoarse rough verse 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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...And afterward, "f is 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...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow ;...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...learn'd to dance. 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...The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow;...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...learn'd to dance. '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...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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pages
...afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. _', The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 17-18

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...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 smoother numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too. labours, and the words move slow:...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...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 smoother numlxrs flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the...
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