 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...breathes the very soul of harmony, on this very subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But...o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." FROM BLAIR'S LECTURES. CHAP. III. On Figures. FIGURES of speech always imply some departure from simplicity... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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...Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, [main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, Ifc.} " Turn si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, . Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...AlexIMITATIONS. Ver. 366. Soft is the strain, <$'c.] " Tum si laeta canunt,'' &c. Vida, Poet, 1. iii. ver. 403. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : 371 Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet, who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rook's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But...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... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...gives offence, The sound should seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;...o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main." " Of Inversion. SOME languages in regard to the arrangement that usually obtains in them, have been... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 ;...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the nuim . Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...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 ;...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. The beautiful distich upon Ajax in the foregoing lines... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main." In this specimen, however, (which is probably the best... | |
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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... 
