 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 Works of Alexander Pope - Strana 276autor/autoři: Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 str.
...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 str.
...sense ; Soft is the 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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 str.
...While the hoarse ocean 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 l.-ïta canunt, hilari quoque carmina vullu Inccdunt, latumque sonant haud segnia verba.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 str.
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 str.
...the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, Andthcsmoothstreaminsmoothernumbcrsflows; s. Jore nods assent. 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 str.
...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 strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 str.
...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 move slow ; " Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | 1810 - 462 str.
...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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 str.
..." Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, " And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : " But, when loud surges lash the sounding shore, ''...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 - 1810 - 546 str.
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sound ing shore, 368 The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : VARIATIONS. Vet. 390. Ed. 1. A vile conceit in pompous style express'd. Ver. 338. Ed. 1 And smooth... | |
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