 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...lanftuishingly slow, And praisn the easy vigour of of a line Wliere Uenliam's strength, and Waller's tweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tisnot enough no harshness gives offence, The sound musit seem an pcho to the sense?, ft is the strain... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 276 pages
...IMPROVING JUVENILE COMPOSITION", BY JOHN WALKER, AUTHOR OF THE CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, &CS True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ...Pore. BOSTON : MINTED AND SOLD BY J T. BUCKINGHAM, / ' WINTER-STREET. } 1810. THE KEW VOKK PFEUC... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...slow; and praise the easy vigour of a line, 3GO where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetnessjoin. 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 strain... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...Alexandrine ends the song, ' That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.' And afterwards, ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; ' The sound must seem an echo to the sense. ' Sift is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, * And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows :... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...along. * See Essay ou the Genius and Writings of Pope, sect. IK. p. 97. 2d. 1768. And afterwards, v Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flrws : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, But... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, [363 As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives otfence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr g ntly blows, And... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...deportment. What Pope says of writing is perfectly applicable to action in oratory. True ease in action comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. To descend, however to a few of those particulars, to which it seems the most necessary to attend ;... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 402 pages
...deportment. What Pope says of writing is perfectly applicable to action in oratory. True ease in action comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. To descend, however to a few of those particulars, to which it seems the most necessary to attend ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...with so much life and ease, You think 'tis Nature, and a knack to please : " But ease in writing Hows from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," * If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd, and play the fool ; Call,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True case in writing comes from art, not chance, As those more easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offenco, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft 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. 
