 | 1751 - 224 lehte
...celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged whit can be expected from the moft diligent endeavours after this imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze, 'mnft furely be confefied, not much to excel in foftnels or volubility ; and the fmooth ftream runs... | |
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - 1763 - 372 lehte
...muft furely be confe.fed not much to excel in foftnefs or volubility ; and the fmooth flream, rims with a perpetual clafh of jarring confonants. The noife and turbulence of the torrent, is indeed diftinftly imaged ; for it requires very little Ikill to make our language rough. But in the lines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 lehte
...muft be confefled not much to excel in fofmefs .or volubility ; and the fmooth ftream, runs-with.a perpetual clafh of jarring confonants. The noife and turbulence of the torrent, is, indeed, diftinctly imaged, for it requires ver.y little fkill to make our .language rough ; but but in thefe... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 lehte
...reprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze, *' muft furely be confefled not much to excel in " foftnefs and volubility ; and the fmooth ftream " runs with a perpetual clafh of jarring con«' fonants." But notwithftanding the authority of this criticifm, a man may, with good reafon,... | |
 | Edward Burnaby Greene - 1770 - 356 lehte
...verfe intended to reprefent the " whifpcr of the vernal breeze muft be " confefled not much to excell in foftnefs, " or volubility ; and the fmooth ftream runs " with a perpetual clafh of jarring confo" naats;. the noife and turbulence of the " torrent," &c.—Rambler, No, 92, Vol. IV. fm. edit.... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 lehte
...by a. rival wit, may be judged what can be expefted, from tjte moft diligent endeavours after this imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze, muft furely be confefTcd not much tp excel in fofmefs or volubility ; and thp fmooth ftream, runs with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 lehte
...celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what can be expected from the moft diligent endeavours after this imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefent...muft , be confeffed not much to excel in foftnefs or volu- ^ bility ; and the fmooth ftream runs with a perpetual clafh of jarring confonants. The noife... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 lehte
...imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefcnt the tfhifper of the vernal breeze, muft be confefled not much to excel in foftnefs or volubility ; and...with a perpetual clafh of jarring confonants. The noifc and turbulence of the torrent is, indeed, diftinctly imaged, for it requires very little fkill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 lehte
...celebrated by a rival wit, may be judged what can be expected from the moft diligent endeavours after this imagery of found. The verfe intended to reprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze, muft be confefled not much to excel in foftnefs or volubility ; and the fmooth ftream runs with a perpetual... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 lehte
...Rambler. " The verfe intended to teprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze muft furely be confefled not much to excel in foftnefs or volubility ; and the fmooth ftream runs with a perpetual clam of jarring confonants. The IMITATIONS. VER. 366. Sofi Is thejlrain, EsV.] " Turn fi laeta canunt,"... | |
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The verfe intended to reprefent the whifper of the vernal breeze, muft be confeffed not much to excel in foftnefs or volubility : and the fmooth ftream runs with a perpetual clafh of jarring confonants. The noife and turbulence of the... 
