 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 стор.
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Xot so when swift Camilla scours the plain, when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 стор.
...the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ihe line too labours, and the words move slow; 371 not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 стор.
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. [throw. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to The line too labours, and the words move slow, Not so, when swift Camilla scours tlieplain,[maia Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus'" various lays... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 стор.
...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 thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 стор.
...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 thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 стор.
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines, puts me in mind of a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 стор.
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—- when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 стор.
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 стор.
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slaw motion, imitated.. When Ajax. strives some rock's vast weight to throw), ,The line too labors, and the words move slow.. Swift and easy motion^ Not so when swift Camilia scouts the plain,,... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 стор.
...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...o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity. The properties of this species -of style... | |
| |
