 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 páginas
...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 páginas
...IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Ftrse. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should tike the torrent roar, Slow Motion Imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla...o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 páginas
...zephyr gently blows, . And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...no harshness give 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...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 páginas
...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 páginas
...smooth and rough verses correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion: as it... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse...slow : Not so -when swift Camilla scours the plain, Dies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main » • Pope. 20. Good name in man and woman Is... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 páginas
...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 páginas
...and expression. — The style should always accord with the subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...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. Some... | |
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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... 
