 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: The rough rock roars:...  Elements of Criticism - Page 298by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1844 - 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... | |
 | 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 - English poetry - 1804 - 218 pages
...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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow :... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...ruisseau coule en vers plus doux (i) ; (O L'anglais a plusieurs expressions pour rendre le mot doux: soit> 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
.... 28. 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;... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 426 pages
...conjunction. 28. 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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