 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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 learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...; And praise the easy vigour of a line 160 Where Denham's1 strength, and Waller's2 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.... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - 302 pages
...An artless scrawl the blushing scribbler shames ; All should be fair that beauteous woman frames ; True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." I have desired to give you a specimen or two of beautiful letter-writing. They must... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Davies. The priest on skins of ofFrings takes his ease, And mighty visions in his slumbers sees. Dryden. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Pope. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...the mind, and been thoroughly arranged and well digested there, it will flow forth easily at last. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Essag on Criticism, 1. 362-3. ' " with great distinctness, truth, and humour ; "... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 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. POPE. LESSON in. LYR1C POETRY. 1. THE kind of poetry which has been produced in every... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...take, in illustration, a couplet from Pope, a little farther on in the Essay from which C. quotes ; " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." affixing to " writing " the technical meaning which is often assigned to it. This... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...take, in illustration, a couplet from Pope, a little farther on in the Essay from which C. quotes ; " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." affixing to " writing " the technical meaning which is often assigned to it. This... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...which the world ne'er saw. Essay on Poetry. SHEFFIELD. Essay on Criticism — Continued. . ' Line 162. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Line 165. The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Line 325. To err is human : to... | |
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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. 
