| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 ページ
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured witli great attention, and... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 ページ
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 ページ
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 458 ページ
...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...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 ページ
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...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 - 426 ページ
...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....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... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 ページ
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 ページ
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...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... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 ページ
...gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 ページ
...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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... | |
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