 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
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 страници
...words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence NOTES. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : fold Voluminous and vast, numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 страници
...learnt 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...should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rocks' vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so when swift... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 страници
...to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 страници
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES 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 vetse should like the... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 страници
...specific Difference between the ancient and modern Compositions, and consequently their Excellency. ""Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Number flow; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse should like the Torrent... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 страници
...“nevertheless” here into a case of “because” (in the same passage from An Essay on Criticism quoted above): “But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, /...hoarse, rough Verse should like the torrent roar” The effusive speaker of Browning's youthful Pauline, his poetic confidence flagging, vows, “So, I... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 страници
...to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 365 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... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 страници
...learned from An Essay on Criticism, particularly from Pope's examples of subjects requiring sibilance ("Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth Stream in smoother numbers flows") and from his illustrations of the mimetic effectiveness of "long Vowels ("drags its... | |
 | Amittai F. Aviram - 1994 - 322 страници
...to the Seuse. Soft is the strain when Zephyc gently blows. And the smooth Stream in smoosher Numbers flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent toar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to thtow. The Line too labours,... | |
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