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" 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... "
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ... - Page 324
1903 - 1158 pages
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The Top 500 Poems

William Harmon - 1992 - 1176 pages
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Angela Partington - 1992 - 1098 pages
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Word Like a Bell: John Keats, Music and the Romantic Poet

John A. Minahan - 1992 - 236 pages
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Homer: Odyssey Books XIX and XX, Book 19

Homer - 1992 - 268 pages
...19.21o-11 t uev ... | 6<f>6aA".ot 8' . . . ). 11? Cf. Pope. A'vsfly 0n <nti<tsrn (1711): When A|ax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line...so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er uY unix-nding corn, and skims along the main. Another device of emphasis may be seen in lines which...
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Writers on Writing: An Anthology

Robert Neale - 1992 - 280 pages
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The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropædia

1993 - 946 pages
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...of Pope, in which, illustrating the rule that 'the sound should be an echo to the sense', he says: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,...Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or skims along the main. Essay on Criticism CHAPTER 34 Pythagoras, Egyptian Deities, Oracles PYTHAGORAS...
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The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse

Annie Finch - 1993 - 202 pages
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A Glossary of Literary Terms

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1993 - 330 pages
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