 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...or languishingly 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,...easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harslmess gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 428 pages
...Through rocks and caves the name of Delia sounds ; Delia each cave and echoing rock rebounds. Pop*. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence , The sound must seem an cctut to the sense. /,J. You may as well attempt to silence an echo by Ike strength of voice, as a... | |
 | B. S. Nayler - 1830 - 258 pages
...languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigor of a line Where L>enham's(a)slrengthandWaller's(6)sweetness join. 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...or languishingly 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, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense:... | |
 | 1834 - 500 pages
...smooth or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives oflence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...sweetness join. 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 : And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 506 pages
...And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Dcnhain's strength and Waller's sweeuicss join. T nie ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Пя not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the... | |
 | John Henry Brady - 1835 - 232 pages
...improved by practice. This applies as well to epistolary as to all other kinds of composition; for— "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance."•f The art is worth cultivation; for, as has been well observed, "if to speak to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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. If such the plague and pains to write by rule, Better, say I, be pleased, and play the fool : 181 Call,... | |
 | William Gresley - 1835 - 524 pages
...of ease in the production, but rather the reverse. Pope has declared that, " Ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest, who have learn'd to dance." And not only ease, but spirit also may be attained in the same manner. No author ever used more labour... | |
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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. 
