 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 Works of Samuel Johnson - Страница 124написао/ла Samuel Johnson - 1816Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 страница
...leani'd to dance. "Tis not euiugh 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 nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 страница
...more are nam'd. SECTION V. VEBSES 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 - 1821 - 280 страница
...IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zepliyr gently blows, • And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud serges lash {he sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 страница
...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...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 Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 страница
...which may be added the verses of 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 страница
...more are nam'd SECTION V. T5RSES 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 страница
...order of the four first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprbbavit, being a dichorce. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 страница
...order of the four first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichorce. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | 1822 - 1148 страница
...emendations suggested by the character of their vernacular tongue. Let the elaborate lines of Pope, Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother murmurs flows, Had Bentley been born and educated in a southern country, perhaps his theory of the... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 страница
...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...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,... | |
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