| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...its slow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when...flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. _', The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 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 - English literature - 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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 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,... | |
| Books - 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... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis...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.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 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... | |
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