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Quotation from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
“The sound must seem an Echo to the sense:”
An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 365 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
The principle that the music of verse should fit its meaning.
Citation: "The sound must seem an Echo to the sense:" — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 365 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id an-essay-on-criticism-q4)
