...each foreign tongue ; Prune the luxortant, the uncouth refine, But show no merey to an empty line : Then polish all, with so much life and ease, You think 'tis natore, and a knack to please; * But ease in writing flows from art, nut chance ; As thuse move easiest...

...mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale. — Shakespeare. 19' True ease in writing comes iroin art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the...

...of each foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line; Then polish all with so much life and ease You think...dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men...

...of each foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line; Then polish all with so much life and ease You think...dance.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men...

...; whereas our Poet supposes it to be the last, and hardly attained perfection of a laboured NOTES. Then polish all, with so much life and ease, You think...As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." q If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas 'd and play the fool ; 181...

...exercises : and the delight he took in it, produced the effect he speaks of, in the following lines : " Then polish all with so much life and ease, You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please." We are not commonly taught to expect this effect from correction ; and it has been observed oftener...

...that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. 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 : 365 NOTES. Ver....

...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 learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain...

...that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. True ease injvriting comes from art^ not chance^ -,^ ' As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc,g. t" 'Tis not enpugh JIQ.. harshness Mgjyg§-p.ffence, / ' The sound must seem an Echo to the...

...excellent in ancient and modern literature, for, as Pope justly observes, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." I must, therefore, confess I do not regret, with Mr. Shee, " the long and general influence of precedent...