 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...from art, nut chance, As thuse move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis nut enough no harshaess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, And the smouth stream in smouther nomhers flowx; But when loud sorges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...writing comes from art, not chuiicc, As those move easiest w ho have leani'd to dance. "Tis not euiugh no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an...zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother nun bers flows J But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...those move eas;est who have learn'dto dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The soui.d must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain...blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Hut when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 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...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 Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale. — Shakespeare. 19' True ease in writing comes iroin art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and « : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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 i But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...lines of monosyllables that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense : 365 NOTES. Ver. 361. Denham's strength,] Sufficient justice is not done to Sandys, who did more to... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [j°in. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...order of the four first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word comprbbavit, being a dichorce. Had he finished it otherwise, he says,... | |
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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. 
