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... Lives - Page 565edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...Bat when load surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, w brn swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er Hi' unbending corn, and skims along tbe main.' The... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...The line"too labours, and the words move slow; When Aj.IX strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies 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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...weight his huge arm strive to shove, The verse too labours, the throng*d words scarce move. PITT. \Vben Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. POPE. It appears highly probable, that in these, and in some other examples which might be selected,... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...kind ought to be a caution to others not to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty weight to throw; "The line too labours, and the words...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main," been all the author meant them in this respest, the merit would not have been great. It would have... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...should like the torrent roar. [throw, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to The line too labors, nse: Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,...fairly worth the seven : A light, which in yourse Hear how Timotheus varied lays surprise. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! \Vhile, at each... | |
| 1810 - 462 pages
...But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...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... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, ' The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent rore. 1 When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...when swift Camilla scours the plain, ' Flies o'er tb' unbending corn, and skims along the main.' The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to thiow, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not...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... | |
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