| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough vetse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 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...echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gertly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
| D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...learned from An Essay on Criticism, particularly from Pope's examples of subjects requiring sibilance ("Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth Stream in smoother numbers flows") and from his illustrations of the mimetic effectiveness of "long Vowels ("drags its slow length along";... | |
| Amittai F. Aviram - 1994 - 322 pages
...Eccho to the Seuse. Soft is the strain when Zephyc gently blows. And the smooth Stream in smoosher Numbers flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent toar. When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to thtow. The Line too labours,... | |
| Viśvanātha Kavirāja - 1994 - 474 pages
...need should I have of Indra's rank ?" where the word «sqi (by thec) is wanting. 11 'Tig not enongh no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense." Literal Incongruity when the letters are smooth is exemplified in the following stanza, addressed by... | |
| Jack Fuller - 1996 - 288 pages
...organizational structure — that fits his purpose, keeping in mind the advice of Alexander Pope: 24 Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. ( five ) ENS HNDLITERflRY TECHNIQUE OVER THE YEARS SOME JOURNALISM HAS LASTED WELL beyond its normal... | |
| Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 pages
...interests: 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, The sound must seem an echo of the sense. Ail nature is but art, unknown to Thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see;... | |
| Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...Criticism are both the locus classicus, and something of an early definition, of expressive form in poetry: 'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...Criticism) 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, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. (Essay on Criticism) All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst... | |
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