 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 flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should...  Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed - 272 페이지저자: Familiar quotations - 1883전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 페이지
...learn'd to dance. T is 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...flows; but when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Ae hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 페이지
...leara'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...smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sound ing shore, 368 The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 페이지
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main—- when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 페이지
...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The horse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. From these lines, laboured with great attention , and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 페이지
...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough terse should like the torrent row. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skimt along the main. The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines,... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 페이지
...demands of the subject. In the following "verses he has most accu* lately exemplified the precept : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th* unbending corn, and skims along the main, &:c. Suppose, then, a writer to affect only bare perspicuity.... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 페이지
...a dançar, melhor se move, Naõ basta ao verso, ser brando, innocente O som deve ser eco do sentido Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 37 1 Not so, when swift Camilla- scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 페이지
...to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: 371 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'erth' unbending corn, and skimsalongthe main.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 페이지
...pleasure. SECTION V. Verses in which sound cor responds to signification. ._ ,. Smooth, and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 페이지
...happily observes, "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound miift seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain, when zephyr gently blows, And...flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Tlie hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to... | |
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