 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 էջ
...sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line loo labours, and the words move slow;... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 էջ
...subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in...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... | |
 | 1803 - 412 էջ
...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,...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... | |
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 430 էջ
...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 torrent roar; . When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low... | |
 | 1803 - 290 էջ
...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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 էջ
...not enough no harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows ; And the smooth stream in...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 էջ
...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 smooth stream in...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 :... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 էջ
...enough, no harshness gives offence , The sound must aeem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and the... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 էջ
...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 smooth stream in...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... | |
 | 1806 - 408 էջ
...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...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ths line too labours, and the words move slow... | |
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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... 
