| William Scott - 1817 - Страниц: 416
...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...stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - Страниц: 448
...learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1819 - Страниц: 718
...down. In the succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - Страниц: 490
...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... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - Страниц: 426
...sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers Sows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 434
...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... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - Страниц: 408
...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. Some... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 422
...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... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - Страниц: 366
...to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Страниц: 456
...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, Flics o'er th' unbending... | |
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