 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pagina’s
...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: Nut so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...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 : ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too labours, and the words move... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pagina’s
...strain, when Zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Nor so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pagina’s
...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...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagina’s
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense....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 pagina’s
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pagina’s
...are nam'd. • SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUNFVCORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash thesoundihg-'Shore, " The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slmo motion imitated. When... | |
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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... 
