 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1821 - 280 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...are nam'd. SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Sjnooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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 - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently...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,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
