 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pages
...beneath them a piece of water, in which Mercury stands ; to the left a rocky and mountainous back* Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough noise should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strive! some rock's vast weight <b throw. The line too... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pages
...upon the sound it represents. Pope also tells us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, " Tis not enongh no harshness gives offence ; " The sound must seem...when Zephyr gently blows, " And the smooth stream in amoother numbers Howe ; " But when loud surges lash the sounding shoro, " The hoarse rough verse should... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join....from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. % True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, v As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis...enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem on echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...imitation. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; As those move easiest, who have learned to dance. "Tis not enough, no harshness gives offence...flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, Tlic hoarse ruuirli verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some ruck's vast weight to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. — Warton. And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join....offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 NOTES. Ver. 362. True ease] Writers who seem to have composed with the greatest ease, have exerted... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 pages
..." A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tl*at, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The Iwarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 628 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flowi ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 512 pages
...A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Tftat, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' " Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough ve^se should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join....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... | |
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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... 
