...on Criticism, very happily observes, 'Tis not enough no hardiness gives offence^ , i The sound muft seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain, when...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loiid surges lash the sounding shore, The hoar.'e, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax...

...age of prodigy. Genius or no genius, he alone shall be clever who is studious; for, as Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance", " As those move easiest who have learnt to dance:" and chance has as little to do with any other study as with writing. we mast A young...

...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...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 strives...

...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But...

...glide, And ships secure without their haulsers ride. Odytsey, iii. 118. Another example of the latter : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Es'ay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example...

...ships secure without their haulsers ride. • • Another example of the latter: Odyssey, iii. 118. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Essay on Crit. 366. Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example...

...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 324,5. " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense."—/. 364, 5. " At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shews great pride, or little sense." —...

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...praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease ia writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move...have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,...