 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...  Poésie, versification [etc - Page 134by Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth 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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...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...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 400 pages
...Faber & Faber Ltd. Copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...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 th ' unbending... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 404 pages
...Roethke. 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...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... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...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 shou'd like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast weight to throw, The Line too labours,... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...like the torrent roar. - T ' i ' i ' - r ' When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, ' - i • ' r ' r ' i" i - ' Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main ... Sceptics who... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - 1997 - 272 pages
...syllables in unstressed positions in "An Essay on Criticism" (11. 370-1): When/4/ox strives some Rocks' vast weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slow; (cf. Küper p. 191) In terms of this analysis, the relationship between the plane of abstract metre... | |
 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 pages
...zweite eine langsame, mühsame Bewegung metrisch „nochmals sagt", die vierte Zeile dagegen Flinkheit: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main. Um nur zwei Mittel der prosodisch bewerkstelligten Verlangsamung... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
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