 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...groan the thickets brown, ' ' Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xziii. 144. But when loud surges' lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pop?* Essay on Criticism, 369. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 pages
...climates, into a soil less adapted to its naturej 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...'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 when loud billows lash the sounding shore, . ,' Ttoe hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. much maturity... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...'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 la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Jliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, •...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. if • * Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su: Than just to look about us, and to Expatiate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Flies 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...harshness gives 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...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... 
