| William Scott - 1820 - 422 páginas
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main.... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main.... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 páginas
...which may be added the verses of Pope, who breathes the very soul of harmony, on this very subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...slow. Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, Ifc.} " Turn si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 páginas
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, <$'c.] " Tum si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...join, True ease in writing comes from act, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim . Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 páginas
...Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...the manner in which they are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...slow; Not 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... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." In this specimen, however, (which is probably... | |
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