 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, liice a wounded snaJce, drags its slaw length along' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tliat, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 332 pages
...to dance. 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...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Aj ax strives some rock's vast weight to thro w , The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 pages
...sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flowi ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The...strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too lahours, and the wordR move slow : 370 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unhending... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...dance. 'T is 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...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 165 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth...When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 170 The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 512 pages
...stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough ve^se should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." As an exercise in Onomatopoeia, the student may select... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...points to some of these in his well-known lines: — " The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth...hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar." The poet, as all will of course see, here exemplifies the meaning of his lines practically in their... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like tho torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight...so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er tho unbending corn, and skim? along the main. PAUSES. Grammatical punctuation does not always demand... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...of Pope, in which, illustrating the rule that "the sound should be an echo to the sense," he says : "When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or skims along the main." — Essay on Criticism. CHAPTER XXXIV PYTHAGORAS EGYPTIAN DEITIES ORACLES... | |
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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... 
