 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Alexandrine ends the song, [along. That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length LeaTe such to time their own dull rhymes and know What's roundly smooth...languishingly slow; 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,]'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...lanftuishingly slow, And praisn the easy vigour of of a line Wliere Uenliam's strength, and Waller's tweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tisnot enough no harshness gives offence, The sound musit seem an pcho to the sense?, ft is the strain... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1810 - 276 pages
...IMPROVING JUVENILE COMPOSITION", BY JOHN WALKER, AUTHOR OF THE CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, &CS True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. ...Pore. BOSTON : MINTED AND SOLD BY J T. BUCKINGHAM, / ' WINTER-STREET. } 1810. THE KEW VOKK PFEUC... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...slow; and praise the easy vigour of a line, 3GO where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetnessjoin. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. T is not enough no harshness gives offence, the sound must seem an echo to the sense: soft is the strain... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...song, [along. That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length Leave Such to tune their own dull rhymed and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denbam's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 355 A needless Akxandiine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or Innguishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Dtnham's strength, and Wallei'ssweetness... | |
 | Elizabeth Appleton - Women - 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... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...franght With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes ! " — Who are the " MOST " that " JUDGE a poet's song by numbers?" with whom " smooth or rough is... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave...Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease ia writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis. not... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. l«eave...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 move easiest... | |
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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. 
