 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...  The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Side 61af Joseph Addison - 1811Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 304 sider
...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 - 219 sider
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 sider
...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,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 372 sider
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 sider
...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
...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 - 480 sider
...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
...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 - 399 sider
...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... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823
...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... | |
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