 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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The...  Specimens of the British poets - Sivu 15tekijä(t) British poets - 1809Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sivua
...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow. Swift and Easy. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Felling Trees. Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes r On all sides round the forest hurls... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 sivua
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 sivua
...shore, The hoarse rough verse shoi, hi like the torrent roar* When Ajax strives some rock,s vast wcight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o,er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 sivua
...sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rork's vast weight to ihrow, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not...when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 sivua
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should, like the torrent, roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 sivua
...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, The line...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 sivua
...torrent roar. much maturity of judgement, extent of reading, and. "When Ajax strives some rock's \rast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flees o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' • various lays surprise,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 sivua
...rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Srvift and Easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; On all sides ronnd the... | |
 | 1817 - 708 sivua
...powers indeed have not been exaggerated by the eloquent description of the poet : " Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall...While, at each change, the son of Lybian Jove Now bums with glory, and then melts with love. Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs... | |
 | 1817 - 694 sivua
...powers indeed have not been exaggerated by the eloquent description of the poet ' Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ; While, at each change, the son of I.ybian Jove Now bums with glory, and then melts with lore. Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury... | |
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