 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...  Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 35by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...more are nam'd SECTION V. T5RSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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 labours, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, Ifc.} " Turn si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, <$'c.] " Tum si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...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 th' unbending... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...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 th' unbending... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...And afterward, "f is 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...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 th' unbending... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...beauties that arise from style and expression. — The style should always accord with the subject. '• Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : ld Baucis is by old Philemon seen Sprouting with sudden...And saw his lengthen'd arms a sprouting wood : New torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words... | |
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