| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Unlucky,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...ease in writting comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. r'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; \The sound must seem an echo to the sense*,,^&6£t is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 Seiten
...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 in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 Seiten
...needless Alexandrine ends the »ong, That like a wounded snake drays us slow length along. And afterward, of lifty with an ordinary Soft is the strain when '/cphyr gently hluws, And the smooth stream in smoother numb' rs flows; But... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 Seiten
...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 in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 Seiten
...them in Parker and Fox's Grammar, Part 3d in the ap pendix xxxm. SOUND ADAPTED TO THE SENSE. " *T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo of the sense. " ONOMATOPOEIA. Onomatopoeia, or Onomatopy, consists in the formation of words in such... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! Bmti SOUND AN ECHO TO THE SENSE. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense : SoA is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
| Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington (hon.) - 1858 - 130 Seiten
...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."* The choice of an instrument at starting is not of so much consequence as is generally supposed : each... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 Seiten
...For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile. Unlucky... | |
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