| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...Soft and Rough. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roğr. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention, and... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...arise from style and expression. — The style should always accord with the subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...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... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
..."Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line two labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 pages
...climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...SECTION V. VEBSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...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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