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 Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Página 72de Alexander Pope - 1903 - 672 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line loo labours, and the words move slow; 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 páginas
...tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar f . An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
| 1803 - 412 páginas
...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. Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow j • Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
| Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1803 - 430 páginas
...strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low ; Not so 4uh¿n sitiift Camilla scours the p lain, Flits... | |
| 1803 - 290 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 páginas
...offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But...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, Flieso'erth'... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...offenc?, 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 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, Flies o'er... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...offence , The sound must aeem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and the... | |
| 1806 - 408 páginas
...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 Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Ths line too labours, and the words move slow j Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 páginas
...^*\ • -( '"*• . "r ,'-•'•••.• * ' 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; ; l Not so, when swift Camilla Scours the plain, Flies... | |
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