 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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. NOTES. 366. A needless Alexandrine, #c.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease m myself the garlands on their boughs, And tablets hung for gifts o learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...slow; 359 And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...feasts the sensfe ; but like the ordinary breeze, which purifies the air, and renders it healrhful. True ease in writing comes from art, .not chance : As those move easiest, who have learned to dance. One shall rise Of proud ambitious heart, who, not content Will) fair equalitv, fraternal state, Will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 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 learned to dance," If such the plague and pains to write by rule. Better, say I, be pleased, and play the fool; Call,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 3GC Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. / learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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 ;...have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...plainly framed upon the sound it represents. Pope also tells us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, " '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 smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;... | |
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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 : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream... 
