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... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - الصفحة 213بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1891عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...that the 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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...sufficient to remark that 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...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 line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...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,...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. 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 line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, .... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. 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 line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Wh=n Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ite by Hickman and Hazzard. William Brown, printer. rnei o'er ill' unbending com, and skims along the main.' The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...slu.uld like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rj-ks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Not so when swilt Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er th" unbendmg corn, and.ekims a long the main. Swift and... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...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 ; 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... | |
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