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... The Review of Reviews - 第 472 頁由 編輯 - 1895完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 頁
...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 : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 頁
...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 : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th'... | |
| 1822 - 436 頁
...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... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 頁
...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. Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 頁
...pause, which occasions à very drawlhvg movement. Another example I shall take from the same author: 'When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labour«, and the words move slow **). In the iira t of these lines the harsh combination« of consonants... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 頁
...But when lond 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: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbending... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 頁
...'. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow j Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, « Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 頁
...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; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 頁
...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 ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 頁
...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; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
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