 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 like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Seite 145von Joseph Warton - 1806 - 8 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 Seiten
...no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zqihyr 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. [throw. When... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 Seiten
...soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zrphyr 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 Seiten
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—-... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 Seiten
...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 the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 Seiten
...thy own, SECTION IVi. VERSES IN. WHICH THE SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough versa Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother, numbers flbws> Bat when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 Seiten
...And afterwards, '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 number flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough terse should like the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...learn'd to 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 in smoother number flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 Seiten
...a dançar, melhor se move, Naõ basta ao verso, ser brando, innocente O som deve ser eco do sentido Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 Seiten
...demands of the subject. In the following "verses he has most accu* lately exemplified the precept : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...throw, The line too 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 Seiten
...to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'erth' unbending corn, and skimsalongthe main.... | |
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