 Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 365 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 212by Alexander Pope - 1891Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...ler'ssiveetnf True ease in writing comes from art, not chanc As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc '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 bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 pages
...sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...all proportion'd terms he must dis-- bright, pense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et fréta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littore fluctus... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 pages
...Alexandrine ends the sons;, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, 'TU 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 smouXVvw VXYK&OTJ. $>»•«•!,-.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, the sound must seem an echo to the sense: soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, and tbe smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; but when... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...chance, Where Denham's strengh, and Waller's sweetness join. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. '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 number flows ; But... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 19. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, '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 ; The... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...Shakespeare. 19. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. '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... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 606 pages
...writing, an attention must be paid to the harmony of sentences; or, as it is asserted by the poet: K2 '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,... | |
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