 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 720 pages
...down. In the succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses correspond to the objects whicli they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...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 - American literature - 1819 - 484 pages
...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 642 pages
...chance, As thuse move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis nut enough no harshaess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smouth stream in smouther nomhers flowx; But when loud sorges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1819 - 434 pages
...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roğr. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 424 pages
...THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES CONTAIN VERSES, THE SOUND OF WHICH IS AN ECHO TO THE SENSE. 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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 368 pages
...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse ronghi verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some roi k's vast weight to throw, The line,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 424 pages
...those move eas;est who have learn'dto dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The soui.d must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...chuiicc, As those move easiest w ho have leani'd to dance. "Tis not euiugh no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
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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... 
