 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ;...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; 365... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 Seiten
...sweetness join. 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 : And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have Icarn'd to dance. * I 'in ounted heroes where he counted" victor lies. With...all the fields are red, And heap'd with growing mo hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...Alexandrine ends the song. Tnat like a wounded snake drags its slow length alón;. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when /.ephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in stnoothernumbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 Seiten
...by Pope : 1. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; A* those move easiest who have learnt to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence;...to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlowi, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 Seiten
...are nam'd. SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORHESrONDS TO SlUMFtCAT1O.N. Smootli anj rcnpk "rrse. o SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like tlic torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 Seiten
...piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: — Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding sbore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar9. An attempt of the same kind of conformity... | |
 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 Seiten
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.f An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 Seiten
...needless Alexandrine ends the gong, That like a wounded snake drags itsslow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound...echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gentry blows. And the smooth stream in smoother number* flow*: But when loud surges lash the sounding... | |
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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... 
