 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...are narn'd. SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Ftrse. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should tike the torrent roar, Slow Motion Imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...glide, And ships secure without their haulsers ride. Odytsey, iii. 118. Another example of the latter : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Es'ay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...Shakespeare. 19. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence...stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 pages
...CORRESPONDS TO ÍIGNIFISXTIOH. S mouth and rottgk rersc. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently bio ws, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The huirse rough verse should like the torreut row. Slatv motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...ships secure without their haulsers ride. • • Another example of the latter: Odyssey, iii. 118. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Essay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...of the cesural pause. When this pause is on the fourth syllable, the strain is smooth and airy ; as, Soft is the strain | when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream | in smoother murmur flows. Or, it is still quicker, when placed at the second syllable; as, Not so I when swift... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 324,5. " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense."—/. 364, 5. " At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shews great pride, or little sense." —... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...down. In the succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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... | |
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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... 
