 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 516 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 tense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 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 tense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother number flows... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...Innguishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Dcnham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art,...those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis nut enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. S(>5 124 A trepar... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...in their hands. MILTON! LESSON XVIII. ANTITHESES. TB-UE ease in writing comes from art, not ckance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness giyes offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain, when zephyr gently blows,... | |
 | Elizabeth Appleton - 1815 - 362 pages
...age of prodigy. Genius or no genius, he alone shall be clever who is studious; for, as Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance", " As those move easiest who have learnt to dance:" and chance has as little to do with any other study as with writing. we mast A young... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags it's slow length along.' * » * * ' 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soil is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength,and Waller's sweetnesTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo 10 the sense : Soft is the strain when Zt phyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease ia writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move...have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 348 pages
...old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense."—Z.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 shews great pride, or little... | |
 | Francis Moore - 1819 - 198 pages
...written with the greatest degree of facility. Mr. Pope. an old acquaintance of mine, tells us that, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, '• As those move caiiest who have learnt to dance." Now this remark is indubitably correct, and its truth is peculiarly... | |
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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. 
