 | William Scott - 1823 - 372 страници
...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...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; '. But when loud -surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like a torrent roar. When Ajax... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 страници
...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 must...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823
...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...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 399 страници
...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...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...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...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. _', The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 480 страници
...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,... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 80 страници
...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 torrent roar. When Ajax... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...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 torrent roar. When Ajax... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 страници
...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...sudden leaves of sprightly green : Old Baucis look'd loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrentroar. When Ajax... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...first words of his Republic. Cicero records the approbation he met with for finishing jI 2 a sentence Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; NOTES. a sentence with the word compro'bavit, being a dichoree. Had he finished it otherwise, he... | |
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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 like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives... 
