 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 Seiten
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing jI 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word compro'bavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 Seiten
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | 1824 - 408 Seiten
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...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 ; The sound...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...who have learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho sh mellifluous dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent ronr. When Ajax... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 Seiten
...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 ; The sound...echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. 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 vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion... | |
 | 1824 - 408 Seiten
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
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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... 
