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" XXIII. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms: When the tide rushes... "
Elements of Criticism - Page 290
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 504 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows j 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. The line too labours, and the words move slow;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 pages
...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 like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow;...
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A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...

Patrick Brydone - 1817 - 552 pages
...many of the old Italian and Sicilian poets, who all speak of it in terms of horror; and represent * Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here...with storms: When the tide rushes from her rumbling eaves, The rough rock roars; tumultuous boil the waves ; They toss, they foam, a wild confusion raise,...
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Systematic Education, Or, Elementary Instruction in the Various ..., Volume 1

William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 606 pages
...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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ;...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...when zephyr gently blows, . And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surgesla?h 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, labors, and the words move slow...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow;...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...Rough. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows: , But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. I Slow Motion* When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...Rough. And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gpntly 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. The second class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion; as it...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 20

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 396 pages
...Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; ]iut when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When A jax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow:...
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