 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 - 1840 - 270 pages
...are nam'd. SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORHESrONDS TO SlUMFtCAT1O.N. Smootli anj rcnpk "rrse. o SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like tlic torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line... | |
 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pages
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.f An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...Criticism, " "Tia not enough no hanhncm gives offenre ; "The sound muet seem an echo to the sense. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, " And...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling of trees in a forest: " Loud sounds the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...Criticism, " '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...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling of trees in a forest : "Loud sounds the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select such wordi u he can recall in which the sound... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, plies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...a perpetual clash of 'Tring consonants;" that in the lines which mention the efforts of Ajax, then 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; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Echo to the sense.] Lord Roscommon says, " The sound is still a Comment to the sense." VOL. II. A a 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 : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th'... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...echo | to the sense : Soft | is the strain ] when Zephyr | gently blows, And | the smooth stream 1 in smoother numbers flows, But when | loud surges...when swift ] Camilla | scours the plain, Flies | o'er th' unbending corn, ] and slums | along the main. Questions. — How many kinds of pauses are used... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 the unbending... | |
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