 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 páginas
...offence, The sound must seem an echo 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words, move slow : Not so when swift Camilla...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 páginas
...correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when...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 it... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 páginas
...sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers Sows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 páginas
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 páginas
...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...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 th' unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 páginas
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 páginas
...style should always accord with the subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." But this accordance, this "echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages. Some... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 páginas
...CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when...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 labors, and... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 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... 
