 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pagina’s
...untutored Nature can .produce. This sentiment is •well expressed by the poet : But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to danee.§ fGeneral Introduction to the Account of the Voyages of Commodore Bynwj, &c. by Hawkesworth.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pagina’s
...needless Alexandrine ends the gong, That like a wounded snake drags itsslow length along. And afterwards, Soft is the strain when Zephyr gentry blows. And the smooth stream in smoother number* flow*: But when... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pagina’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 strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when... | |
 | 1871 - 870 pagina’s
...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, he is a " ruler... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pagina’s
...plainly framed upon the sound it represents. Pope also tells us, in his Poetical Essay on Criticism, " 'TIs not enough no harshness gives offence ; "The sound must seem an echo to the sense " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, "And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; "... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...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...offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain2 when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; 1 Most... | |
 | R. Turner (B.A.) - 1845 - 318 pagina’s
...so far from destroy ing natural ease and elegance, that they cannot be acquired by any other means. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. POPE. But the second part of the beforementioncd precept for writing letters is, if possible, more... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 324, 5. " "Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense." — I. 364, 5. " At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride or little sense."... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 64 pagina’s
...'•:!-•• in writing tomes from art, not chance; A -i thone move easiest who have learnt to dnnce. Tin not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But... | |
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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 : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream... 
