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... The Monthly Magazine - Seite 321808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...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 a torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too,... | |
| 1824 - 408 Seiten
...subject. '• 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." But this accordance, this " echo of the sound to the sense," cannot... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers Baucis look'd where old Philemon stood, And saw his lengthen'd arms a verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers trunks. See, they gently twiteh his eoat, Just to yawn and give his vot verse should like the torrent ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...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. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
| 1824 - 408 Seiten
...the subject. " 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." But this accordance, this " echo of the sound to the sense," cannot... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 Seiten
...rough verse. Soft is the strain when zephyr ge,ntly 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. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 Seiten
...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 verse', should like the torrent mar*. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...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 some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 Seiten
...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." And faithful to his own maxims, he thus describes the felling... | |
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