 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 页
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow :• Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 496 页
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 页
...groan the thickets brown, ' ' Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xziii. 144. But when loud surges' lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pop?* Essay on Criticism, 369. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 页
...SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Ftrse. 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 tike the torrent roar, Slow Motion Imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 页
...zephyr gently blows, . And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges la?h the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th1 unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, 20. Good name in man and woman Is the immediate... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 页
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Jliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, •...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. if • * Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 页
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 页
...must seem an echo 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash...should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 页
...the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion: as it... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 页
...Soft and Rough. Soft is the strain when 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 the torrent roar, ' Slow Motion. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,, The line too labours, and the words... | |
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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... 
