 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 páginas
...are nam'd. SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORHESrONDS TO SlUMFtCAT1O.N. Smootli anj rcnpk "rrse. o SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like tlic torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line... | |
 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 páginas
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.f An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 páginas
...us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, " "Tia not enough no hanhncm gives offenre ; "The sound muet seem an echo to the sense. " Soft is the strain when...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling of trees in a forest: " Loud sounds the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1843 - 222 páginas
...WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNITICATIOjI. Smooth and rough Verse. SOFT is the strain' when sephyr gently blows, •' — • And the smooth stream in...hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent roar Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax strives somei rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 páginas
...True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 páginas
...framed upon the sound it represents. Pope also tells us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, " 'TIs not enough no harshness gives offence ; "The sound...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling of trees in a forest : "Loud sounds the... | |
 | 1843 - 434 páginas
...thoroughly known to 1 1 ii n. The ancients practised the same art ; and Pope, it will be remembered, says, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verso should like the torrent roar." These lines are intended, of course, as an instance of what they... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 páginas
...Pope also tells us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenre ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling of trees in a forest : " Loud sounds... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 64 páginas
...'•:!-•• in writing tomes from art, not chance; A -i thone move easiest who have learnt to dnnce. Tin not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoars? rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 páginas
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so... | |
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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... 
