 Tis not enough no harshness 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 ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse...  Lives - Page 565edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...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,...of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and and time, produced this memorable triplet : • * Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join ")... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift...of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and and time, produced this memorable triplet : Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join ~) The varying... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...But 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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...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,...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; :•*.<.* j. ..* w.hen he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse, steals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...But 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,...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...ksh the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slc^v. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...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,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rook's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | 1822 - 436 pages
...speaks, he tires ; and his laboured prose of style always brings to our recollection the lines, — " When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow." Should the play be repeated, our animadversions on the other characters will be resumed. The after-piece... | |
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