 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 199by Alexander Pope - 1853Full view - About this book
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Thai, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymcs,and r / 3GC Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd en, and not a master, taught, Whose art was nature,...crown'd with princes' honours, poets' lays, Due to Icarn'd to dance. * I 'in not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know...; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham'a strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,' and know...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
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