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While the hoarse ocean beats the sounding shore,
Dashed from the strand, the flying waters roar.

— Marco Girolamo Vida De Arte Poetica (1527)

Tunc longe sale saxa sonant, tunc et freta ventis
Incipiunt agitata tumescere: littore fluctus
Illidunt rauco.

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Book III, line 388. Compare | But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. | Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 168

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