 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...syllables into ancient harmony have only given additional evidence of the hopelessness of the enterprise. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...join. 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...throw, The line too. labours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 páginas
...slow length along. And afterward, Tii not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem on ake uuticc of a tabby cat that sate in the chimney...under as bad a report as Moll White herself ; for ; riot so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers tial scene heheld, 3y Pallas guarded through the dreadful field; 631 tight darts he lahours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the... | |
 | 1836 - 932 páginas
...eently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flow*: But when loud surge!) lash the Hounding ut actual points of faith. The next method of reconciling miracles BO. when swift Camilla scour* the plain. Flies o'er llr unbending corn, and skims along trie main.... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 páginas
...supposed more particularly to express the imitation. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, -\i The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned 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 main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in stnoothernumbers alas ! your majesty disdains ; And I'm not used to panegyric strains : Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus'2 varied lays surprise,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 páginas
...gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlowi, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors and the words move slow. Not so... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 páginas
...following is one of the most celebrated examples of imitative harmony in the English language :— 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. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these... | |
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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 should... 
