 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance, "Tis not enough no harshness gives oticiice, The sound must ssing : For how precarious is the blessing ! A wife ne iakes. And now fo Andthcsmoothstreaminsmoothernumbcrsflows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when aephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajaa... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, the sound must seem an echo to the sense: soft is the strain when...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;... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. T is not enough no harshness gives offence, the sound must seem an echo to the sense: soft is the strain when...flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...those move easiest who have leara'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when...smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sound ing shore, 368 The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION Smooth and rough .verse. Soft is the strain when zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows....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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...sect. IK. p. 97. 2d. 1768. And afterwards, v Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense, Soft is the strain when...gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flrws : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...the voice in reading and speaking : " 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense. " Soft is the strain when...gently blows, " And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : " But, when loud surges lash the sounding shore, '' The hoarse, rough verse should like... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. . " • Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
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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 should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives... 
