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...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...

...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...

...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...

...echoing groan the thickets brown, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xxiii. 144. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent ro»r. Pope's Essay on Criticism, 369. DireScylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis...

...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...throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flics o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main....

...strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...throw, •The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main....

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...sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The...Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,. The Hue, too, labors, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours -the plain, Flies o'er...

...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 be attained in many languages. Some...