 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...  The Spectator - Página 304por Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...» * * ' '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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 páginas
...happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its naturej and less favourable to its increase., Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 páginas
...Ftrse. 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 tike the torrent roar, Slow Motion Imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...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 - 1817 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give 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 like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 páginas
...describe. 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. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion:... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 páginas
...dance. '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 Sows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 páginas
...FOLLOWING EXAMPLES CONTAIN VERSES, THE SOUND Of WHICH IS AN ECHO TO THE SENSE, Soft and Rough. Soft is the 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness 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 ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When... | |
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