 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...arc nam'd. , SECTION V. VERSES 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 vetse should like the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...terminating sound being / and n : so also is the celebrated passage of Pope, VOL. IX. PART II. U " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. ****** Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...44 True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ition should be made of sterner stuff. (Ill, ii) 50 There is a tide in the (Fr. II) FaBoUs; HAP; NIP; PoEL-3; SeCePo 45 For fools admire, but men of sense approve: (Fr. II) 46... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...learned from An Essay on Criticism, particularly from Pope's examples of subjects requiring sibilance ("Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth Stream in smoother numbers flows") and from his illustrations of the mimetic effectiveness of "long Vowels ("drags its... | |
 | Viśvanātha Kavirāja - 1994 - 474 pages
...need should I have of Indra's rank ?" where the word «sqi (by thec) is wanting. 11 'Tig not enongh no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense." Literal Incongruity when the letters are smooth is exemplified in the following stanza, addressed by... | |
 | Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 1996 - 300 pages
...expressive form in poetry: 'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho 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 shou'd like the... | |
 | Jack Fuller - 1996 - 288 pages
...organizational structure — that fits his purpose, keeping in mind the advice of Alexander Pope: 24 Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. ( five ) ENS HNDLITERflRY TECHNIQUE OVER THE YEARS SOME JOURNALISM HAS LASTED WELL beyond its normal... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 pages
...interests: 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 of the sense. Ail nature is but art, unknown to Thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see;... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...29 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. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "An Essay on Criticism," I. 362-5 (1711). 30 Why... | |
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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... 
