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" 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... "
Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ... - Page 308
by Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 436 pages
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 7

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...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, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Nut so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing jI 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word compro'bavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : 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 skims along the...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...who have learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho sh mellifluous dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too labours, and the words move...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...strain, when Zephyr gentle blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Nor so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main....
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...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...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense....blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...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...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pages
...are nam'd. • SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUNFVCORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash thesoundihg-'Shore, " The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slmo motion imitated. When...
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