 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join....chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. NOTES. 366. A needless Alexandrine, #c.] Dr. Johnson requires in an Alexandrine a pause invariably... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. [know Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and n shows [vade. A spreading oak, that near a linden...Grave men, not vain of tongue, or like to lie. I m writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "Tie not enough... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along. Leave sueh to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing eomes from art, not ehanee,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line Where Denham's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...feasts the sensfe ; but like the ordinary breeze, which purifies the air, and renders it healrhful. True ease in writing comes from art, .not chance : As those move easiest, who have learned to dance. One shall rise Of proud ambitious heart, who, not content Will) fair equalitv, fraternal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Thai, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymcs,and r / 3GC Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...354 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, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigor of a line, 360 Where Denham's... | |
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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. 
