 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 str.
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...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.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 str.
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 str.
...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 : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—-... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 str.
...Rougli. Soft is the 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 like the torrent roar, Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 str.
...Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother, numbers flbws> Bat when loud surges 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 str.
...sense. 365 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...Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'erth' unbending corn, and skimsalongthe main. Hear how Timothens' vary'd lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 str.
...sentido 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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 str.
...precept : 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...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 str.
...verse. 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. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 str.
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Tlie hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the verse moves slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Fiies o'er lh' unbending com, aud skims... | |
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