 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 390 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...'. 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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...its slow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...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... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...the manner in which they are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 402 pages
...those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis 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, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...drags its slow length along. And afterward, "f 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. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw.... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 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 the smooth stream in smoother numlxrs flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 494 pages
...learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must ntures at the temple-gate, Old Baucis is by old Philemon...Baucis look'd where old Philemon stood, And saw his The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to... | |
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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... 
