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" 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* "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 52
by Alexander Pope - 1889 - 505 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...ler'ssiveetnf True ease in writing comes from art, not chanc As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the bmooth stream in smoother numbers fle But when...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 77-78

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 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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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...with ?o much life and ease fou 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." 1 If such the plague, and pains, to write by rule, 1S0 ■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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1804 - 218 pages
...know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line WhereDenham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in...offence: The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 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.t It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them * Only...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands.”t 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance4 It is ¿veil known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Foiftaine, cost them much...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 426 pages
...and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands.''t 27. True ease in writing conies from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.i It is well known that the writings of Voi — ture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost therr"^*...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...all proportion'd terms he must dis-- bright, pense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et fréta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littore fluctus...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...Alexandrine ends the sons;, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. And afterwards, 'TU not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smouXVvw VXYK&OTJ. $>»•«•!,-....
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