 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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The...  Elements of Criticism - 302 ページLord Henry Home Kames 著 - 1855 - 486 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 ページ
...learn'd 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 stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 ページ
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as 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 when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 ページ
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the 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 like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 ページ
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numlxrs flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 ページ
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : ld Baucis is by old Philemon seen Sprouting with sudden leaves of sprightly green : Old Bauci But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar.... | |
 | 1824 - 408 ページ
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 ページ
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing jI 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word compro'bavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 ページ
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. 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 vetse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho to the sense : dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent ronr.... | |
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