 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...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 - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 808 pages
...vad weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. —Such as have aftive fpirits, who are ever Jtimming over the furface of things with a volatile... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...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...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th1 unbending... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the e. 4 42.— On Man. LET us (since life can little more su:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...principles of representative harmony, it will be sufficient to remark that the poet who tells us, that When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...so when swift Camilla scours the plain Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main— when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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 move slow. . •Swift and Easy. I Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...describe. 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. The SECOND class of objects, which the sound of words is often employed to imitate, is Motion: as it... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...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... 
