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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... "
The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos - Page 187
by Charles Burton - 1823 - 286 pages
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 2

1806 - 346 pages
...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 soundsng shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 1

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...anglaise; il prouvera ensuite quelle énorme différence existe entre un bon et un mauvais traducteur ; Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows ; And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;* *Le vers est doux quand zéphire souffle doucement ; et le doux ruisseau coule en vers plus doux (i)...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...sense. ' V165 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,...roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tbrow, The line too lahours, and the words move slow: 171 Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...the strain when aephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajrtx strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too lahours, and the words move slow : "Not....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is Ihe strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream...so when swift. Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the' unbending corn, and skims along the Hear how Timothens' varied lays surprise, [main. And hid alternate...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...The sound must seem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the mooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges...The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar r When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too labours, and the words move slow...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...down. In the succeeding lines, smooth and rough verses cor, respond to the objects which they describe. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the soimding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. The SECOND class of objects,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...learn'd to dance. MV; 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 lond surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When AJaX...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...blows. And tin1 smooth stream in smoother numhers flows : But when loud surges lash the sounding shnrc, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to tli row, Tin; line too labour«, and the words moveslow. Not so, u hen swift Camilla scours the plain,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...imitation of one of the lines of Pope- already quoted. With this exception the following is the parallel : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. POPE. Atque adeo, siquid geritur raolimme magno Adde moram, et pariter tecum quoqiic verba laborent...
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