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" 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. "
The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ... - Page 372
by Increase Cooke - 1819 - 408 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and knoir What's roundly smooth, or languishingly 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;...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...so ranch life and ease You think 'tis Nature, »nd a knack to please : " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, " As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." 1 If such the plague, and pains, to writa by rule, iSo Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...untutored Nature can produce. This sentiment is well expressed by the poet: But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance f. True ease in composition, accompanied with purity, differs as much from that homely manner which...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along. Leave such-te tune their own dull rhimes, and know What's roundly smooth , or languishingly slow } And...from art not chance , As those move easiest who have learn 'd to dance. 'Tis not enough, no harshness gives offence , The sound must aeem an echo to the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...with so much life and ease, You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, " As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." If such the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better ( say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool :...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...opposed to softness, in writing or painting. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise...easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Walter's sweetness join. fye. Caracci's strenrth, Coregjjio's softer line, Paulo's free stroke, and...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. J • i It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them much...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.J It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them much...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...scrupulously avoiding it, POPE has fallen into an unpleasing and tiresome monotony in his Iliad. 25. And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.t i ^ FEN TON, * Edinburgh, 1753, 12mo. p. 81. f Ver. 356. i % Ver. 360. FENTON, in his entertaining...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...with so much life and ease You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please : * But ease in writing flows from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.' If such the plague and pains to write hy rule, Better (say I) he pleas'd, and play the fool; Call,...
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