...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."t An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense is perhaps but too discernible...

...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...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...

...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The Iwarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select such words es he can recall in which the sound...

...smiled — more seldom on his mother's smile ; He prattled — less in accents void of guile. 323. Soft is the strain — when zephyr gently blows, And...hoarse, rough verse should — like the torrent roar. RULE Till. 324. Between the several members of a series. EXAMPLES. 325. Such are the excuses which...

...not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the stream when zephyr gently blows ; And the smooth stream in...hoarse rough verse, should like the torrent roar." POPE. The time is not remote when I Must by the course of nature die ; When I foresee my special friends...

...A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, liice a wounded snaJce, drags its slaw 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 words as he can recall in which the sound...

...A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tliat, 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 words as he can recall in which the sound...

...tine" " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, Wee a wounded snake, drags its slaw 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 words as he can recall in which the sound...

...Excellency. ""Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Number flow; 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...

...260. Camilla. Pope, illustrating the rule that " the sound should be an echo to the sense," says : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism. 268-281. On Norse mythology, see RB...