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" Tis not enough no 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 loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse... "
Lives - Página 565
editado por - 1800
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen1

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...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 the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scout's the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen8

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 páginas
...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,...thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet; Waller was smooth...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 páginas
...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,...thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet; Waller was smooth;...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 páginas
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw....o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines puts me in mind of a description in Homer's...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." In this specimen, however, (which is probably the best in the English language,) the imitation is imperfect,...
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The Rambler: In Three Volumes ...

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 458 páginas
...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 throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 páginas
...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 throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured witli great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes17-18

British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...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 throw,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what...
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