 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 458 strani
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 strani
...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...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 strani
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 strani
...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...words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 strani
...learn'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...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 strani
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 strani
...afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust 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. _', The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 strani
...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 strani
...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 30C. Soft is the strain, &;c.] one But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprize, And bid alternate... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 strani
...IMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, fyc.] " Turn si laeta canunt," &c. Vida, Poet. 1. iii. ver. 403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprize, And bid alternate... | |
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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... 
