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...strain, when Zephyr gently 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 ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main....

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...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...

...tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, IMITATIONS. Ver. 30C. Soft is the strain, &;c.] one But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main,...

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...IMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, fyc.] " Turn si laeta canunt," &c. Vida, Poet. 1. iii. ver. 403But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse,...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main,...

...beauties that arise from style and expression. — The style should always accord with the subject. '• Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And 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....

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