 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 - Страница 61по Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 страници
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 страници
...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 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 408 страници
...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,...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some reek's vast weight to throw, n-.e hue, too, labours, and the words move slow • t so when swift Camilla... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 страници
...leani'd to dance. "Tis not euiugh 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 nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 страници
...terminating sound being / and « : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 страници
...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 the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 страници
...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 the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 страници
...to 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... | |
 | Nicolas Boileau Despréaux - 1821 - 524 страници
...aux yeux : Soft is the strain , when zephyr gently blows , And the sinooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore...hoarse , rough verse should like the torrent roar. When -djax strives some rok's vast weight to throw, The Une too labours , and the words move slow ; Not... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 страници
...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 smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
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