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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...

An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 145
by Joseph Warton - 1806 - 8 pages
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A Grammar of Iconism

Earl R. Anderson - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1998 - 408 pages

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Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line

Peter L. Groves - English language - 1998 - 204 pages

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Elements of English Composition: Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1998 - 430 pages

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大阪大学文学部紀要, Volumes 10-12

Philology - 1963 - 970 pages

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Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages

...'harshness' by art: '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...throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay on Criiicism, 364-71)' In a polemic designed to rescue metrical matters from technical prescription,...

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