...learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : ld Baucis is by old Philemon seen Sprouting with sudden...And saw his lengthen'd arms a sprouting wood : New torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words...

...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 30C. Soft is the strain, &;c.] one 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 th' unbending...

...IMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, fyc.] " Turn si laeta canunt," &c. Vida, Poet. 1. iii. ver. 403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,...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...

...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....

...learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho to the sense : dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too labours, and the words move...

...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c 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...

...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...

...harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows...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...

...the 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 the 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...

...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number-- flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rocks' vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so when swift...