 | 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 ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...slow ; And praise the easy vigor 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 - 1836 - 502 pages
...slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. or whate'er was great, Lies 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...languishing!}- slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. gives it, or receives learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...egregious 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 - 354 pages
...egregious 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 - 352 pages
...egregious 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;... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...loftiest expression of the art of writing. "The art of writing," note: which recalls the lines of Pope:— True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. There is not a poem of Tennyson's— or there Is hardly one— which is not the outcome... | |
 | 1871 - 870 pages
...as careful as he should be, unless he commit his words to paper, and be mindful that . " True case in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." e. This plan of writing gives authority to the preacher. In the style of the Bible,... | |
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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. 
