 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 sivua
...art, not ckance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness giyes offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense....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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 sivua
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 sivua
...Rough Ftrse. 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 tike the torrent roar, Slow Motion Imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 sivua
...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 sivua
...glide, And ships secure without their haulsers ride. Odytsey, iii. 118. Another example of the latter : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Es'ay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 sivua
...of the cesural pause. When this pause is on the fourth syllable, the strain is smooth and airy ; as, Soft is the strain | when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream | in smoother murmur flows. Or, it is still quicker, when placed at the second syllable; as, Not so I when swift... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 sivua
...ships secure without their haulsers ride. • • Another example of the latter: Odyssey, iii. 118. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Essay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 sivua
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 324,5. " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense."—/. 364, 5. " At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shews great pride, or little sense." —... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 sivua
...join. 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 Sows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 sivua
...art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...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... | |
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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... 
