 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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. 356. A needless Alexandrine, fyc.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a pause invariably at the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 428 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. NOTES. 366. A needless Alexandrine, fyc.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a pause invariably... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 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. NOTES. 356. A needless Alexandrine, fyc.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a pause invariably... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...so seemingly natural and easy. Even Voiture wrote with extreme difficulty, though apparently without 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 any effort ; what Tasso says of one of his heroines may be applied to such writers ; " Non so ben... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease m th circling fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formid "Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...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. qlf such the plague and pains to write by rule Better (say I) be pleased and play the fool ; Call,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...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. qlf such the plague and pains to write by rule Better (say I) be pleased and play the fool ; Call,... | |
 | 1824 - 280 pages
...Jllexandrine 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 ec/to to the sense, ' Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, ' And the smooth stream in smoother... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1825 - 370 pages
...or Janguishingly 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,...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...slow; 359 And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
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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. 
