 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 354
...following is one of the most celebrated examples of imitative harmony in the English language : — Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 376
...following is one of the most celebrated examples of imitative harmony in the English language : — Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main. Pope's Essay on Criticism. Let us compare these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - Počet stránok 944
...sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gentry blows. And the smooth stream in smoother number* flow*: Xa p thro*. The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Počet stránok 620
...the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud billow» lut>h the sounding shore* T!ie hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar....to throw, The line too labours, and the words move »low; Nut so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er the unbeudiug coru and skims along the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1843 - Počet stránok 222
...WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNITICATIOjI. Smooth and rough Verse. SOFT is the strain' when sephyr gently blows, •' — • And the smooth stream in...hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent roar Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax strives somei rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - Počet stránok 884
...join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' vary M lays surprise,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - Počet stránok 456
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...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, plies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - Počet stránok 454
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...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, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Počet stránok 490
...a perpetual clash of 'Tring consonants;" that in the lines which mention the efforts of Ajax, then But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays1 surprise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - Počet stránok 328
...easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem on echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 370 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
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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... 
