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...passage in his Art of Poetry intended to • represent the whispering breeze and the flowing stream. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. On this passage Dr. Johnson, in all the pride of acute, but rather ill-natured criticism, remarks,...

...passage in his Art of Poetry intended to represent the whispering breeze and the flowing stream. Sofi is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. On this passage Dr. Johnson, in all the pride of acute, but rather ill-natured criticism, remarks,...

...languishingly slow : And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...

...feeble, according to the nature and design of the word, phrase, or passage delivered. EXAMPLES. Soft— Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows. Loud — But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent...

...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance...offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; 365...

...sweetness join. 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 : And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, The...

...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness teous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with princes' honours, poets' lays, Due to Icarn'd to dance. * I 'in not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the...

...Alexandrine ends the song. Tnat like a wounded snake drags its slow length alón;. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when /.ephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the...

...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. 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...