 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 pages
...slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness joinTrue 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.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...with pleasing murmurs creep," .„ The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep." •**• ** True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. "Pis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 24 Where Denham's strength andWaller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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'dto dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...grandeur and glory, like the setting of a tropical sun." The following are further examples : — (1.) " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance." (2.) " "We have often thought that the public mind in our country resembles that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 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 those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...— " The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you '11 find Two... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...; 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. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense'... | |
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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. 
