 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 407 pages
...move easiest who have 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...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 to throw,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...» * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, . ,' Ttoe hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. much maturity... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816
...glide, And ships secure without their haulsers ride. Odytsey, iii. 118. Another example of the latter : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Es'ay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 414 pages
...move easiest who have 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...stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...CORRESPONDS TO ÍIGNIFISXTIOH. S mouth and rottgk rersc. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently bio ws, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The huirse rough verse should like the torreut row. Slatv motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.) - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...ships secure without their haulsers ride. • • Another example of the latter: Odyssey, iii. 118. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Essay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 316 pages
...of the cesural pause. When this pause is on the fourth syllable, the strain is smooth and airy ; as, Soft is the strain | when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream | in smoother murmur flows. Or, it is still quicker, when placed at the second syllable; as, Not so I when swift... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1819 - 264 pages
...nor more are SECTION V. Verses in which sound corresponds with signification. SMOOTH AND ROUGH VERSE. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smooth*- numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when...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 to throw,... | |
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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 : When Ajax strives... 
