 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 - 15 ページBritish poets 著 - 1809全文表示 - この書籍について
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 ページ
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. from Pope's Essay on Criticism. HEAR how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While, at each change, the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love : Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 ページ
...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...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And hid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 ページ
...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar r 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 surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 ページ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 ページ
...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, ^lics o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the ^ main. Hear how Timothens' varicd lays surprise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 ページ
...the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and (lie words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise I While at... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 294 ページ
...load 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 ; Not so, w brn swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er Hi' unbending corn, and skims along tbe main.' The... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 ページ
...kind ought to be a caution to others not to attempt it. Had his lines " When Ajax strives some mighty weight to throw; "The line too labours, and the words...when swift Camilla scours the plain, " Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main," been all the author meant them in this respest, the... | |
 | 1810 - 462 ページ
...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 celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 ページ
...representative har^ mony, it wilt be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that 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; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
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