 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...strain when Zt phyr 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 some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...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. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion: as it... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ro»r. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...warlike steed : He piles the field with mountains of die shin ; He pours, he storms, he thunders thro' the plain. PITT. From the Italian gardens Pope seems...slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. jFrom these lines, laboured with great attention,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...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." But this accordance, this "echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages. Some... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rocks vasi weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and... | |
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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... 
