 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagina’s
...more are nam'd. SECTION V. VEBSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and Rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows, But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pagina’s
...when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges ksh the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Slow motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pagina’s
...sweetness 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...Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pagina’s
...Dryden. 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 : 365 NOTES. Ver. 361. Denham's strength,] Sufficient justice is not done to Sandys, who did more to... | |
 | 1822 - 1148 pagina’s
...emendations suggested by the character of their vernacular tongue. Let the elaborate lines of Pope, Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother murmurs flows, Had Bentley been born and educated in a southern country, perhaps his theory of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pagina’s
...more are nam'd SECTION V. T5RSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS TO SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pagina’s
...which may be added the verses of Pope, who breathes the very soul of harmony, on this very subject. " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough, verse should, like... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pagina’s
...sweetness 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 echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pagina’s
...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 ; The sound...zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; '. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like... | |
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Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... 
