 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...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 : Soft is the... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pagina’s
...taste and experience is guided, were ever irnbodied in language. * Pope has hit this point exactly. u But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance." 6 He has formed them for himself by studying the constitution of man and making observations... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pagina’s
...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. Soft is the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagina’s
...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 most bright; Unaiming... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pagina’s
...years; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spake; Or bid the new be English, ages hence, (For use will...chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."5 If such the plague and pains to write by rule, 180 Better (say I) be pleased, and play the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pagina’s
...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...from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. MY AUNT. This very clever poem is by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, an American poet. MY aunt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pagina’s
...foreign tongue; Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line ; 175 " But ease in writing flows from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." 3 If such the plague and pains to write hy rule, 180 Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool;... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pagina’s
...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 ; " * listening 1771.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pagina’s
...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, 180 Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool ; Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pagina’s
...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 'tis nature, and a knack to please : But ease in writ ug Hows from a/t, not chance; As those move eas st-w •= have learn' d to dance. There lived... | |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 
