...wind That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale Shakespeare. 19. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...learn'd to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives ofience ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And...

...mountain pine, And make them stoop to the vale. — Shakespeare. 19' True ease in writing comes iroin art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tis not enough no liarshness gives offence ; ..The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr...

...lines of monosyllables that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense : 365 Ver. 361. Denham's strength,] Sufficient justice is not done to Sandys, who did more to polish...

...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [j°in. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As...no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echp to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers...

...writing, an attention must be paid to the harmony of sentences ; or, as it is asserted by the poet: 'Tu 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 number* flows ; 'But,...

...with 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." q If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas 'd and play the fool ; 181...

...with 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." q If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleas'd and play the fool ; 181...

...with 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.' If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better (say I) be pleased, and play the fool: Call,...

...monosyllables that have much force and energy ; in our author himself, as well as Dryden. True ease injvriting comes from art^ not chance^ -,^ ' As those move easiest who have learn'd to danc,g. t" 'Tis not enpugh JIQ.. harshness Mgjyg§-p.ffence, / ' The sound must seem an Echo to the...

...derived from whatever is most excellent in ancient and modern literature, for, as Pope justly observes, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." I must, therefore, confess I do not regret, with Mr. Shee, " the long and general influence of precedent...