 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 344 pages
...ou frouxo; O vigor facil de um bom verso amemos, 95 Where DenhanTs strength, and Wnller's sweetnesg join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,...those move easiest who have learn'd to dance* 'Tis not enougli no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...loftiest expression of the art of writing. "The art of writing," note: which recalls the lines of Pope:— True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. There is not a poem of Tennyson's— or there Is hardly one— which is not the outcome... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense." — I. 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 shows great pride or little sense."... | |
 | R. Turner (B.A.) - 1845 - 318 pages
...so far from destroy ing natural ease and elegance, that they cannot be acquired by any other means. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. POPE. But the second part of the beforementioncd precept for writing letters is,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 60 pages
...True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; Aa thoKO move easiest who have learnt to d.ince. JTi8 not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the cense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother members flows... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense."—1. 324, 5. " TU 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 shows great pride or little... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...course is diametrically opposite to that alluded to in the well known lines of Pope,— 11 True grace in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who bavo learned to dance." In this maxim it is assumed that natural ease and grace of carriage, are best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...feeble aid do join ; 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,...offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense. 365 NOTES. Ver. 362. True ease] Writers who seem to have composed with the greatest ease, have exerted... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
..." The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as... | |
 | 1847 - 530 pages
..."The style is excellent," The sense they humbly take upon content. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 1 1. True ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Talk as you will of taste, my friend, you HI find Two of a face, as... | |
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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. 
