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 British Essayists: Spectator - Página 256editado por - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...wastes and deserts: They weary wandered over waste sand deserts. When .Ajaa: strives some rocks t'ast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow. That morning, thou, that slumber'dst not before, Nor slepist, great Ocean, laidst thy waves at rest,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 páginas
...True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...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 the unbending... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...syllables into ancient harmony have only given additional evidence of the hopelessness of the enterprise. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 374 páginas
...before. It was horrible, if barrenness and danger could be so." I heard him, after we were in (1) " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." — POPE. the house of Breacacha, repeating to himself, as he walked about the room, " And smother'd... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...before. It was horrible, if barrenness and danger could be so." I heard him, after we were in (1) " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." — P0PE. the house of Breacacha, repeating to himself, as he walked about the room, " And smother'd... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 páginas
...The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 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 the unbending... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 334 páginas
...metre, has in a great measure tended to destroy them. The partial success of the imitationf is too When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too lab'ring, each dragg'd word moves slow. Lovelier the light Camilla skims the plain, Shoots o'er th'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...throw, The line too. labours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
| 1836 - 1118 páginas
...slow length along. And afterward, Tii not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem on ake uuticc of a tabby cat that sate in the chimney...under as bad a report as Moll White herself ; for ; riot so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers tial scene heheld, 3y Pallas guarded through the dreadful field; 631 tight darts he lahours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the... | |
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