 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - Liczba stron: 434
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ro»r. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - Liczba stron: 364
...the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words, move slow : Not 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 434
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - Liczba stron: 422
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 462
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...some rock's vast weight to throw, •The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 456
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - Liczba stron: 408
...always accord with the subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." But this accordance, this "echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages. Some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 404
...poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - Liczba stron: 366
...should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla...scours the plain, , Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Liczba stron: 280
...SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash...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 labors, and... | |
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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... 
