 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 290by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...stream in smoother numbers Sows. Soft is the strain when Zephvr gently blows. Bat when load billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. The line too labours, and the words move slow ; When Âjax strives some rock's vast »eight to throw,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 pages
...describe. 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. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion ; as... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strum, Sfc.] one 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 lahours, and the words move slow:... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sense: Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; mp, Eacli Muse and each fair science pin'd away The sordid hours: while foul barbarian hands Their When Ajax strives,some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...by its pause in the midst, is a tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. one But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: hen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 30C. Soft is the strain, &;c.] one 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:... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...Aristotle has a long prose с describing its terrors, and both Homer and Virgil have celebrated song :— Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here...caves, The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves ; They toss, they foam, a wild confusion raise, Like waters bubbling o'er the fien- blaze ; We were... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 264 pages
...Verse. 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. Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1825 - 494 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 t6o labours, and the words move slow:... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's streugth and Waller's sweetness join. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torreut roar When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words... | |
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