...slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. 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 must seem an echo to the sense....

...that it serves for an example to prove the rule— that the perfection of artifice is to hide itself: "True ease in writing comes from art, — not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance." In cla«sic attainment Fiti-Patrick's conld not l-.i' compared (whose conld?) to...

...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: 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...

...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags iis slow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Sofi is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, Bat when loud rargn teih the sounding iborc, Th* koarw...

...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to :he sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth strc'arn in smoolher numbers...

...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 the smooth stream in soioothcr numbers flows. But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...

...like a wounded snake drags its slow length alonj." And afterwards, " 'Tis not enough no harshness gins offence, "The sound must seem an echo to the sense....when Zephyr gently blows, " And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; " But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, " The hoarse rough verse...

...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 the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...

...vowels tire, While expletives \hf\T fetbie aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbersßaws ; Eut when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should...

...wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, Tis not enough no harshness gives offenc?, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is...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...