 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...  The rambler - Էջ 134Samuel Johnson - 1810Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 էջ
...strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number* flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 էջ
...blows. And tin1 smooth stream in smoother numhers flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shnrc, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tli row, Tin; line too labour«, and the words moveslow. Not so, u hen swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 էջ
...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the mooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar r When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 էջ
...harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is Ihe 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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 էջ
...beats the sounding shore, Dash'd from the strand, the flying waters roar. PITT. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. POPE. Turn, si Ista canunt, hilari quoque carmina vultu Inceduilt, hetumque sonant haud sepnia verba.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 էջ
...smooth and rough verses cor, respond to the objects which they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the soimding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. The SECOND class... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 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 smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When AJaX... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 էջ
...the strain when zephyr gently blows, Andthcsmoothstreaminsmoothernumbcrsflows; But when loud surges Two hopeful boys And .. line girl reward in - joy?. Xo more solicitous lie [throw, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to The line too labors, and the words move slow:... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 էջ
...harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when aephyr gently blows, 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 Ajaa... | |
 | 1810 - 462 էջ
...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...roar. When Ajax 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,... | |
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