 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the 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 like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numlxrs flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...True ease m writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tie heir hour was come, while they relate These past...And saw his lengthen'd arms a sprouting wood : New torrentroar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing II 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprobavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...seemingly natural and easy. Even Voiture wrote with extreme difficulty, though apparently without any 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 NOTES. any effort ; what Tasso says of one of his heroines may be applied to such writers : " Non... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...seemingly natural and easy. Even Voiture wrote with extreme difficulty, though apparently without any 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 NOTES. any effort ; what Tasso says of one of his heroines may be applied to such writers : " Non... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...who have learn'd to danee. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offenee, The sound must seern an eeho sh mellifluous dews, and find the ground Cover'd with pearly grain : ronr. When Ajax strives some roek's vast weight to thro.v. The line too labours, and the words move... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; c But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
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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 should... 
