 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Страниц: 388
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...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 - 1811 - Страниц: 366
...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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Страниц: 514
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - Страниц: 188
...precept : 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...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.... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - Страниц: 198
...sentido 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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Страниц: 230
...sense. 365 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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'erth' unbending corn, and skimsalongthe main.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Страниц: 348
...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...Flies o'er the unhending corn, and skims along the main — when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - Страниц: 352
...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... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - Страниц: 704
...And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Tlie hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....vast weight to throw The line too labours, and the verse moves slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Fiies o'er lh' unbending com, aud skims... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - Страниц: 222
...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...when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. POPE, II. Good name, in man or woman, Js the immediate jewel... | |
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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... 
