 | Art - 1762 - 290 ページ
...the laft) is in this cafe both a precept and an example. Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently brows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar. When djax ftrives fome... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 480 ページ
...hauliers ride. Odyfley, iii. -118. Another example of the latter : r rr ,fi 4 '.a Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows. Effiy on Cnt. 3 6 6. Fifthly, prolonged motion is exprefled in an Alexandrine line. The firft example... | |
 | Virgil - 1763 - 376 ページ
...for the fake of fome excellent obfervations that have been lately made upon it, Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax itrives fome... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 ページ
...harfhnefs gives offence ; The found mult fcem || an echo to the fenfe ; || Soft is the Drain || when Zephir gently blows, And the fmooth ftream || in fmoother numbers flows: || But when loud furges || lafh the founding fhore, The hoarfe rough verfe j| fhould like the torrent roar : || When When Ajax... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 ページ
...not enough, no harfhnefs gives offence: The found muft feem an echo to the fenfe. Soft is the ftrain when zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows: But when loud furges lafh the founding fliore, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould, like a torrent, roar. When AJAX ftrives fome... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 ページ
...author of the Rambler ; though others are perhaps rather nice, and faftidious. " Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, " And the fmooth ftream...fmoother numbers " flows ; " But when loud furges lafh the founding fhoar,* The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the tor-' " rent roar : " When ,Ajax... | |
 | Edward Burnaby Greene - 1770 - 356 ページ
...of the found with the fenfe' on which principle they were originally written. " Soft is the ftrain, When Zephyr gently blows, ". And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers " flows." The author of the Rambler remarks; " The verfe intended to reprefent the " whifpcr of the vernal breeze... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772 - 398 ページ
...without their haulfers ride. OJyffey, iii. 118. Another example of the latter : Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows. Effay on CV/V. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is exprefled in an Alexandrine line. The tiift example... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 ページ
...large, for the fake pf fome excellent pbfervations that have been lately made upon it. Soft is the drain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in 'fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lalh the founding fhere, The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar ; When Ajax ftrives fome... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 ページ
...not enough no harfhnefs gives offence, The found muft feem an echo to the fenfe. Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows J But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore, 370 The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent... | |
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Tis not enough no harfhnefs gives offence, The found muft feem an echo to the fenfe. Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding more, The hoarfe rough verfe mould... 
