 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...  The British Essayists - Σελίδα 208επεξεργασία από - 1808Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 σελίδες
...IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Sjnooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges ksh the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 σελίδες
...IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Verse. 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. Slow Motion Imitated.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 σελίδες
...IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. 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. . Slow motion... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 σελίδες
...Pope, who breathes the very soul of harmony, on this very subject. " 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 σελίδες
...harshness gives 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 flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, When Ajax strives... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 σελίδες
...velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " 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,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 σελίδες
...harshness gives offence, The sound should 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 σελίδες
...no harshness gives 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 flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 σελίδες
...harshness gives 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 flows ; '. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
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