 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...  Standard Fifth Reader - Page 60by Epes Sargent - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough...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 the unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 pages
...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 ihe plain, Flies o'er the' unbending... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pages
...afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. _', The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, But when loud surges lasb the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The Hne too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the 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 like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | 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.... | |
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