 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. £ It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them much * Only... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...lanirnisîiingly slow: Aii-J praise the easy vigour of я line Where Dcnham's strength ami Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have Icarn'd to dance. Tie not enough no harshnes« gives offence, The sound must seem яп ecno to the... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...evident that he bestowed much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands."f 27. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.J It is well known that the writings of Voiture, of Sarassin, and La Fontaine, cost them much... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...with so much life and ease You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : ' But case in writing flows from art, not chance, ' As those move easiest who have learn'd to dar.cc.' If such the plague, and pains, to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denhatn's strength and Waller's sweetuess True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is Ihe strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...light : To all proportion'd terms he must dispense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. PITT. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the • sense. POPE. Tune longe sale saxa sonant, tune et freta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere : littorc fluctus... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...so much life and ease You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please : • But ease in writing flows from art not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.' There liv'd in primo Georgii (they record) A worthy member, no small fool, a lord ; Who, though the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Where Dcnham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance j As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance, "Tis not enough no harshness gives oticiice, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, Andthcsmoothstreamins... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...languishingly 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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 648 pages
...easy vigour of of a line Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True case in wrjting comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest...learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives ollencç, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. S-nft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And... | |
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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. 
