 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 páginas
...And afterward, "f is 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...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...learn'd to dance. 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...Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim . Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 páginas
...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...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 - 1823 - 458 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 páginas
...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...words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with... | |
 | 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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, tried another... | |
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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... 
