 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...  Works - Сторінка 142автори: Samuel Johnson - 1811Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 стор.
...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...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, ^lics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the ^ main. Hear how Timothens' varicd lays surprise,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 294 стор.
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers ff Bat when load surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, w brn swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er Hi' unbending corn, and skims along tbe main.' The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 стор.
...the smooth stream in smoother number* flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 стор.
...weight his huge arm strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng*d words scarce move. PITT. \Vben Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected,... | |
 | 1808 - 408 стор.
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 стор.
...t<jo labours, and the words movp slow. In the next example, the verse resembles swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and ikiius along the mainThe following verses exemplify laborious and impetuous motion. • With many a... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 стор.
...strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng'd words scarce move. PITT. When Ajax strives seme rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 стор.
...kind ought to be a caution to others not to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty weight to throw; "The line too labours, and the words...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main," been all the author meant them in this respest, the merit would not have been great. It would have... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 стор.
...lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 стор.
...should like the torrent roar. [throw, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to The line too labors, nse: Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,...fairly worth the seven : A light, which in yourse Hear how Timotheus varied lays surprise. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! \Vhile, at each... | |
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