 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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The...  Specimens of the British poets - الصفحة 15بواسطة British poets - 1809عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...loud billows 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...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...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...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...lond 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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...loud billows 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...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...rough verse should like the torrent roar. When 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 1062
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax t begin to bind, th' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' vary'd lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...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...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, William Roscoe - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...loud billows 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...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flieso'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." There is, then, a constant propensity in the English ear to rest upon consonant sounds, and particularly... | |
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