 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...ler'ssiveetnf True ease in writing comes from art, not chanc As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound...Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 312 pages
...That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along, And afterwards, ‘Tis not enough no harshrLess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the...sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, 4nd the smooth streaip in sinoo;ber numbçrs floes; lut when loud nuges lash the sounding sbui¿, The... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." And afterwards, " *Tis not enough no harshness givw offence, " The sound must seem an echo to the sense....gently blows, " And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; " But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, ' The hoarse rough verse should like... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1804 - 218 pages
...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line WhereDenham's strength and Waller's sweetness 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 must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...along, 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 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.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands.”t 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance4 It is ¿veil known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Foiftaine, cost... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.t It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...strength and Waller's sweetness join. in writing comes from art,, no ove easiest who have \ea.m» K 2 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. V 16 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows But... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...Alexandrine ends the sons;, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, 'TU not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must...when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smouXVvw VXYK&OTJ. $>»•«•!,-. SPECTATOR. N« •253. But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...all proportion'd terms he must dis-- bright, pense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et fréta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littore fluctus... | |
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4. 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; The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream... 
