 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...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." But this accordance, this " echo of the sound to the sense," cannot be attained in many languages.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...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 ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too labours, and the words move... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...the effect is produced chiefly by a recurrence of accented syllables and of pauses : .... ( . ^ .. , When' A'jax' strives'' some' rock's' vast' weight'' to throw', The line'' too'' la'bors," and the verse " moves.'' slow'. And,'" like' a woun'ded snake,'" drags'' its' slow' length''... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges gore defaced, High on a spreading tamarisk he placed...and gather'd boughs the plain, To guide their foots 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...motion, as, forewarn, mankind. Example 1. Thus Pope, in his Essar on Criticism, " But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." Example 2. Again, " With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...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. Slow motion imitated. When Aj;«x strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...strain when zephyr ge,ntly 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. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 570 pages
...vividly as possible, the sound of the infernal trump. Pope has done the same thing : But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. And Racine, in describing the serpents seen by Orestes, Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrejit roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow. Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla sco'urs the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...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 mar*. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw', The line' too labours',... | |
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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. 
