| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sivua
...join, True ease in writing comes from act, 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... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 sivua
...Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterward, "f is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sivua
...comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. THE AMERICAN [Lw<m 191. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blow?, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when lond surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 sivua
...its slow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience, The sound roust 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 like... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 sivua
...the manner in which they are read. " ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound should 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 like the... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 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... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 sivua
...asperity, of slowness and velocity, are as complete, as, in the nature of things, they can be:— " 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... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sivua
...subseijuei lines, and with tolerable succès», at least in the concludic couplet: Soft is the »train when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number* flows ; But when load «urges iajh the souuding «bore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar **). An... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sivua
...True ease m writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tie heir hour was come, while they relate These past...seen Sprouting with sudden leaves of sprightly gr numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 sivua
...seemingly natural and easy. Even Voiture wrote with extreme difficulty, though apparently without any 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 NOTES. any effort ; what Tasso says of one of his heroines may be applied to such writers : " Non... | |
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