XXIII. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms: When the tide rushes... Elements of Criticism - Page 290by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...sense. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ra When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to th The line too labours, and the words move slow Not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...monfter, and confounds the fight. And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves • They tofs, they foam, a wild confufion raife, Eternal mifts obfcure th' aerial plain, ^ Like waters... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...there a fcene of horror forms, z80 And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufl:es from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves ; They tofs, they foam, a wild confufion raife, Like waters bubbling o'er the fiery blaze; 185 Eternal... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...there a fcene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms : When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars: tumultuous boil the waves. Pope. No perfon can be at a lofs about the caufe of this beautv : it is obvioufly that of imitation.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...there a fcene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with ftorms. When the tide rufhes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars; tumultuous boil the waves. B;i/teri>ui and glntlr founds. Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, The roaring winds tempeftuous... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...couplet: 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 f. An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 316 pages
...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words more slow ;... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
..." 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 line too labours, and the words move slow... | |
| Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...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 like the torrent roar; . When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...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 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:... | |
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