 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...thoroughly known to 1 1 ii n. The ancients practised the same art ; and Pope, it will be remembered, says, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verso should like the torrent roar." These lines are intended, of course, as an instance of what they... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - College presidents - 1845 - 64 pages
...'•:!-•• in writing tomes from art, not chance; A -i thone move easiest who have learnt to dnnce. Tin not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must...But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoars? rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajai strives some rock's vast weight to throw,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 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 - English literature - 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
...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,...sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain2 when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; 1 Most by numbers,... | |
 | 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 - Elocution - 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
...Warton. And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...point of time, as also in quantity. vOne more example, similar to the foregoing, I will cite. •" Soft is | the strain, when zephyr gently blows, And...stream, | in smoother numbers flows : But when | loud surg | es lash the sounding shore, The hoarse | rough verse | should like the torrent roar." — Pope.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
..." The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as... | |
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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... 
