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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... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ... - Page 13
by Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 406 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,...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...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Sjnooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges ksh the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated....
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

1822 - 284 pages
...dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change...
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An Introduction to English Grammar: Equally Adapted to Domestic and to ...

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...added the verses of Pope, who breathes the very soul of harmony, on this very subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES of speech always imply some departure...
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The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain

Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...Surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw, The Line too labours,...
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Meter in English: A Critical Engagement

David Baker - 1996 - 400 pages
...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax 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, Flies o 'er th ' unbending corn, and skims along the main. —ALEXANDER POPE Contenting myself with the certainty...
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech

Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...sense: 365 - ~ i - • i - ' r • r ' Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, -| ' ' r ' r ' r And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shoar, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. - T ' i ' i ' - r ' When Ajax strives,...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;...When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...dance. '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...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know...
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Theorie der literarischen Gattungen: ein Handbuch für Studierende der ...

András Horn - 1998 - 212 pages
...zweite eine langsame, mühsame Bewegung metrisch „nochmals sagt", die vierte Zeile dagegen Flinkheit: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung...
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