 | British poets - 1809 - Liczba stron: 526
...harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when aephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - Liczba stron: 312
...learn'd to dance. 'T 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...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;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - Liczba stron: 262
...WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION Smooth and rough .verse. Soft is the strain when zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows....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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 314
...learn'd to dance. T 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...flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 546
...leara'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...smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sound ing shore, 368 The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 460
...happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. . " • Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | 1810 - Liczba stron: 462
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 656
...to dance. Tisnot enough no harshness gives offence, The sound musit seem an pcho to the sense?, ft is the 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 like the torrent roar. [throw, When... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 300
...afterwards, v 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 flrws : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - Liczba stron: 384
...afterwards, ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; ' The sound must seem an echo to the sense. ' Sift is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, * And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows : ' Rut when loud surges lash the sounding shore, ' The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent... | |
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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 like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives... 
