 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
 | 1803 - 412 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 j • Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 430 pages
...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar;...to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low ; Not so 4uh¿n sitiift Camilla scours the p lain, Flits o'er the unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the tioet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The...o'er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' vary?d.lays surprise , And bid alternate passions Tall and rise ! "While at each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 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, Flieso'erth' unbending corn, and skims along themain.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 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....strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...glide along. Thin airy shapes o'er the furrows rise, A dreadful scene ! and slim before his eyes. Atf. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and sk:ms along the main. Pope. Such as have active spirits, who are ever slimming over the surface of... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 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.* VOL. i L These * Ver. 386. These lines are usually cited as fine examples of adapting the sound to... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.* •- voi,. r L These * Ver. 366. These lines are usually cited as fine examples -of adapting the sound... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...mot doux: ITTEET, SMOOTH, MEEK , MUD , KIND, GIKT1E. But , when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse , rough verse should like the torrent roar..., when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th'unbending corn , and skims along the main.* POPE , on criticiim. PREMIÈRE TRADUCTION. Que le style... | |
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