 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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... | |
 | Art - 1808 - 674 pages
...stream in smoother number? flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when iwift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1803 - 412 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...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 - 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...she smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; " But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, •f 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 , " Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, "... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...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...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'... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 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 torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and the... | |
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