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 565editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, ami the wards move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,...o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main.— — Pops. * 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewi 1 of their sowls. Who steals my purse,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 páginas
...rock's vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the words move slow. , Swift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; On all sides round the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 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,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending coin, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...torrent roar. much maturity of judgement, extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour : When Ajax strives some rock's -vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. Ninthly, Harsh or rough words pronounced with difficulty, excite a feeling similar... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Essay on Crit. 370. which proceeds from the labour of thought to a dull writer: Just writes to make... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 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,...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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 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,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su:... | |
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